Helsinki museum takes out ‘Hinduism’ from nude photo
CHICAGO: Bowing to protest from infuriated Hindus across the globe, the word "Hinduism" has been taken off from the controversial photograph of nude man on display at the Helsinki museum in Finland.
The gesture has been highly appreciated by the Hindu community in Chicgoland as well as other parts of Midwest in US and it is now sought that the Museum authorities would do well to remove word "Pushkar" also from this photograph of nude man with visible genitals. The town of Pushkar is associated with Hindu god Brahma and is sacred to Hindus. Hindus had approached Finland President, Prime Minister, majority Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, and others requesting intervention for the removal of photograph, apparently denigrating to Hinduism, from the exhibition. This controversial photograph is on display till April 19 as part of Marita Liulia's "Choosing My Religion" multimedia exhibition at Kiasma, in which her art pieces juxtapose Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and Animism. This exhibition will later travel to Tampere, Turku and Vaasa cities in Finland. Hinduism is the oldest and third largest religion of the world with about one billion adherents and rich philosophical thought.
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