Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council : Girish Karnad Resigns!

Goa Golden Jubilee Development Council : Girish Karnad Resigns!
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Renowned actor and playwright Girish Karnad has resigned from Goa's Golden Jubilee Development Council expressing shock over the state government's silence over the attacks on artist Jose Pereira.

Pereira's paintings were targetted by right wing Hindu organisation, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, for allegedly portraying a disrobed 'Shiva' and 'Krishna'.

His exhibition was called off last month after the group protested at Xavier Centre of Historical Research here terming his works "objectionable".

Karnad, in a letter to Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat on August 12, said, "Let me say how deeply shocked I am to hear of the attacks by self-styled standard-bearers of Hindu culture on the works of Jose Pereira, a scholar and artist of eminence.

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