an example of one of the most militant secularist images

 I offer  here an example of one of the most militant  secularist images  that  I have  encountered in the post-Ayodhya struggle, 

which draws on the German photo-montage artist  John  Heartfield's anti-fascist of  a dove  (a symbol of peace) pierced with the blade of  a  bayonet pointing upwards , with the slogan  ' Niemals wieder ' (Never  Again )  emblazoned  below.    Drawing on the  archetypal  image of the  1930s  the photographer  activist Satish Sharma has intervened ingeniously  by  adding two red  prongs  of  a trishul on the tip of the bayonet , thereby  recasting the anti-fascist content of the within a different historical time -frame. 'Never  Again ?  " is his question.This  image works within the grammar of  Heartfield's agit - prop idion, but also  extends it through the insertion another  religio-cultural political illusion. 

RUSTOM  BHARUCHA.   

page 102  of  his book    'In  the Name of the Secular '    Contemporary  Cultural Activism in  India  .

published   OXFORD UNIVERSITY  PRESS   in  1998