View: Indian idols need public support

Indeed, every time someone posts a photo of a Chola bronze or stone frieze depicting some Indian deity displayed in some museum-invariably private and usually in the US-thoughts inevitably turn to how they landed up there in the first place. It is hard to believe that seasoned collectors, both institutional or individual bought the story that antiquities were legitimately acquired in India and sent legally to foreign shores by someone to be sold as "art".

via Economictimes