New Delhi: Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam has withdrawn his work from a planned exhibition at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in Bangladesh. A retrospective of his work – ‘Singed but not Burnt’ – was supposed to launch on July 17.Alam announced his decision in a Facebook post. “The show ‘Singed but not Burnt’ which is currently showing at the Wrightwood659 Gallery in Chicago, was scheduled to show at the Kiran Nadar Museum (KNMA) in Noida later this month. I have decided to withdraw from the show at KNMA. Last few days of show in Chicago,” he said.According to The Indian Express, Alam has written to Kiran Nadar explaining why he does not want to show his work at a museum she runs. “As an artist, journalist and human rights worker, I wish to express solidarity with the artists who note that in India ‘government-run cultural institutions have become instruments of state-sponsored propaganda rather than spaces for critical thinking’. The situation is no different in my own country Bangladesh… There are two areas of concern. The clear endorsement by Ms Nadar of art events which are part of the propaganda machinery of the current Indian regime, and the censure of people who make legitimate critiques of such associations,” he told the newspaper.Alam was referring to Nadar’s role as advisor for the exhibition ‘Jana Shakti: A Collective Power’ at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Delhi. The exhibition was created to mark 100 episodes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s radio show ‘Mann ki Baat’. The other instance he was talking about was Sandip K. Luis being removed from the post of Manager, Curatorial Research and Publications at KNMA, following his statement on social media critical of the Jan Shakti exhibition and Nadar’s association with it.