Raj Kumar Makkad (Adv P & H High Court Chandigarh) 04 October 2011

Update: protesting malthouse theatre in melbourne, hema mali

The Melbourne Festival organisers and the Back to Back Theatre are continuing with the play ‘Ganesh Versus the Third Reich’, which has denigration of Lord Ganesh, Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. Our volunteers have observed denigrations in the play as follows :

Lord Ganesh is shown captured by the Nazis and is shown a knife
Lord Ganesh is trivialised as He is shown talking about His relationship where He ate and drank wine
He is compared with fictitious comic characters such as ‘Spiderman’ and ‘King Kong’
The character within the play (Brian) who plays Lord Ganesh, frequently takes off the Ganesh mask and utters obscenities like suck my d**k
The play has an obscene innuendo surrounding Lord Ganesh, wherein one character asks another, whether the length of Lord Ganesh's trunk is long enough, and the audience laughs
A man with board shorts, no shirt and a garland plays Lord Vishnu in the play
Lord Shiva is portrayed in poor taste and there is a scene where he plucks a human being into two

Forum for Hindu Awakening strongly believes that the very theme of this play is flawed, as it denigrates Hindu Deities by humanising them. The play uses descripttions of Hindu Deities that are contrary to those in Hindu Scriptures.

Hence, Forum for Hindu Awakening has urged the play’s organisers to cancel the play immediately. In the event of non-cancellation of the play, Hindus will stage protests in front of the Malthouse Theatre in Melbourne from 6 Oct 2011 (Vijayadashami). We appeal to supporters of Hinduism to continue their peaceful protests against this play and to join us at the Malthouse Theatre for the protest. For details about the protest demonstration, please write to us at Melbourne@ForumforHinduAwakening.org

Update about Hema Malini’s concert in New York

On Saturday, 1^st October, organizers of Hema Malini’s concert in New York went ahead with the post concert exhibition of M. F. Husain’s paintings, not heeding the many emails and phone calls requesting cancellation of the exhibition. Click here to learn about the heroic effort of an alert Hindu in New York, the poignant reactions to BJP over this concert, and more : https://forumforhinduawakening.org/articles/id/preserving/protest-hemamalini-performance-promoting-mfhusain

Dharmo rakshati raksh*taha !

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Daksh (Student) 04 October 2011

Raj,

You have not mentioned the source of this. Who are these Volunteers. If any body for the purposes of cheap publicity resorts to controversy should we come in the PREACHING MODE AS IT IS EVIDENT FROM YOUR POST!

It is not equally deplorable that for whatever reason you are trying to glorify Forum for Hindu Awakening. It would have been best if you or for that reason your so called volunteers ought to have detailed the whole picture instead of picking what is best suited for "CHEAP PUBLICITY" - I AM NOT SUPPORTING ANY WRONG WHICH MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY THE BACK TO BACK THEATRE BUT WHERE WERE YOU WHEN SHAHRUKH KHAN IN A MOVIE WENT TO A CHURCH AND PRETENDS TO PEE! TODAY IF WEST PINPRICKES THE SAME YOU WON'T BE HAVING ANY ANSWER AND THE LIST CAN GO ON AND ON.

Last but not least like in my upteen previous posts you have failed to convey the objective of your post as in the fitness of things these "SO CALLED VOLUNTEERS OUGHT TO HAVE POLITELY BUT FIRMLY CONVEYED THEIR RESERVATIONS" as respectable citizens we should show the world path forward by maintaining the decorum not resorting to cheapness by sensationalizing the issue or crying hoarse. See for yourself the morning gyan you try to project in various quotations and your stand qua your posts like this.

I hope the message is bold and clear.

Best Regards

Daksh