Artist's Tribute To Kalam Draws Facebook Outrage

02:38PM Sat 1 Aug, 2015

NEW DELHI— In the social media deluge of tweets, poems and art work, to honour late President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, a piece of art by Delhi-based artist, Sameer Hazari, has managed to provoke. Hazari shows Kalam on a 1000-rupee note instead of Mahatma Gandhi that --notwithstanding the 200,000-plus 'likes on Hazari's post--seems to have drawn the ire of a sizeable netizenry, who see the depiction as insulting to Gandhi.