Pulping Doniger can put Penguin in peril

February 12, 2014 11:21

Update on the shameful Wendy Doniger book ban.

Penguin Books has found it fit to (surreptitiously) crawl and obey the purely fascist and criminal diktat of the so called Shiksha Bachao Andolan.

Whatever compulsions Penguin Books may offer in defense of its disgusting behavior, there can be no denying the fact that their action is an affront and insult to their readers and constitutes, in itself, a serious assault on the freedom of expression, scholarship and enquiry in this country.

Read Shuddhabrata Sengupta's piece for Kafila.

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