Painter and installation artist Subodh Kerkar is about to open an exhibition in a beach resort town in Goa featuring images of the elephant-headed god Ganesh in various guises: as Rodin’s Thinker, performing a Maori war dance, as an Oscar statuette, and so on. Several militant Hindu groups are threatening demonstrations and violence against the show and the artist; Kerkar protests that he is himself a devotee of Ganesh.