Repeated attacks on his home and the accumulation of 900 judicial cases against M F Husain forced him into exile. 
M F Husain, a 91-year-old Indian Muslim, often paints naked Hindu gods and goddesses, at which Hindu extremists of the Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal and RSS have taken offense. However, in 2006, it was a Muslim who filed a petition against the painting Bharat Mata (Mother India), arguing national honor was at stake and using the 1971 Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act. The Supreme Court rejected the case in September 2008 on the grounds that “There are many such pictures, paintings and sculptures and some of them are in temples also.”
If you want to have some idea of how elaborate a justification critics of M F Husain put forward, have a look at this blog or that one. Also check the campaign against M F Husain launched by Sanatan Sanstha, a Hindu organization.
Every time a major financial crisis occurs, the expression « casino capitalism » makes a comeback. Just a few weeks ago, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh blamed « casino capitalism » for being responsible of the current financial crisis. The term was actually coined by Susan Strange in her 1986 book:
"The Western financial system is rapidly coming to resemble nothing as much as a vast casino. Every day games are played in this casino that involve sums of money so large that they cannot be imagined. At night the games go on at the other side of the world. In the towering office blocks that dominate all the great cities of the world, rooms are full of chain-smoking young men all playing these games. Their eyes are fixed on computer screens flickering with changing prices. They play by intercontinental telephone or by tapping electronic machines. They are just like the gamblers in casinos watching the clicking spin of a silver ball on a roulette wheel and putting their chips on red or black, odd or even ones.
"As in a casino, the world of high finance today offers the players a choice of games. Instead of roulette, blackjack, or poker, there is dealing to be done – foreign exchange market and all its variations; or in bonds, government securities or shares. In all these markets you may place bets on the future by dealing forward and by buying or selling options and all sorts of other recondite financial inventions. Some of the players – banks especially – play with large stakes. There are also many small operators. There are tipsters, too, selling advice, and peddlers of systems to the gullible. And the croupiers in this global financial casino are the big bankers and brokers."
