Banned Books Week: Prem Panicker, Bringing Up Father
Bringing up Father Prem Panicker My father taught me to read. In imperceptible stages he widened my horizons, broadened my mind, inculcated an eclectic taste that endures long after […]
Category Archives: Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week: Rules For Citizens, Jeet Thayil
RULES FOR CITIZENS A poem by Jeet Thayil Let us govern those who undertake the telling of stories. Censorship is good governance. Self-censorship is an attribute of the highest civilization. […]
Banned Books Week: Lawrence Liang, “The Process is the Punishment”
The process is the bloody punishment Lawrence Liang Sec. 153A of the Indian Penal Code – that favored child of the religious right- provides for punishment of upto three years […]
Banned Books Week: “The State’s Duty”
“The State’s Duty” Samanth Subramanian (First published in the New York Times’ India Ink blog, February 2012) On several occasions already, in what is still a very new year, various arms of […]
Banned Books Week: Sedition edition
Section 124-A, under which I am happily charged, is perhaps the prince among the political sections of the Indian Penal Code designed to suppress the liberty of the citizens. Affection […]
Banned Books Week: Gautam John on the freedom to read
The Freedom To Read, in India Gautam John It isn’t always necessary to ban a book to ensure it isn’t read. With six in ten children unable to read grade […]
Banned Books Week: Thomas Abraham on Reading the Bans
Reading the bans Thomas Abraham I had promised to send this in last weekend. Irony or serendipity, call it what you will… the reason I was delayed was because of […]
Banned Books Week: The Freedom To Read
To mark Banned Books Week, held worldwide from September 30 to October 7, this blog will carry a few posts every day for the next week on the freedom to […]
Banned Books Week: Arunava Sinha on many Ramayanas
By Arunava Sinha How about banning this? Here are two short passages from two famously funny plays written in Bengali several decades ago. For, they make fun of – without […]
Banned Books Week: Mihir Sharma on defending bad art
Trash Bans by Mihir Sharma I am tired of having to defend bad things. Yet apparently one must, once someone bans them. Taslima Nasreen could perhaps be the most awful […]
