The Delhi High Court on 20 January permitted police to seize the paintings after a lawyer named Amita Sachdeva complained the artworks – featuring Hindu deities Ganesha and Hanuman alongside nud ...

Three days after a court in India ordered the seizure of two paintings by late artist MF Husain over a complaint that they were “offensive,” the gallery displaying them strongly opposed the ...

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings. The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which hosted the exhibition, denied any wrongdoing and ...