The Book on Trial: Fundamentalism and Censorship in IndiaExistence of the freedom to read, write, print, publish, discuss, debate, and dispute creative writing and dissident writing in India. |
Contents
Fundamentalism and Social Censorship | 15 |
Dissent Heresy and Religious Punishment | 29 |
R Rasul and its Aftermath | 49 |
Banning the Satyarth Prakash | 61 |
The Brahmacharya Mahayajna and Asuras | 72 |
47 | 90 |
Inflammatory Aangarey | 115 |
The Perpetual Rebel | 135 |
Victim of Academic Politics | 253 |
The FatwaProne Islamicist | 273 |
Heroine by Circumstances | 286 |
Hum Sab Ayodhya | 313 |
Ramayana under Dispute | 324 |
The History of the RamKatha | 337 |
Trials and Tribulations or Piar Singh | 351 |
Tankhaiya Politics and its Fallout | 374 |
9 | 149 |
Lady Chatterley on Trial | 167 |
Salman Rushdie is not for Burning | 181 |
Rushdie Resurrected | 199 |
Salman Rushdie Introspective | 218 |
Last Sigh for India | 236 |
Common terms and phrases
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