June 18, 2026

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Wendy Doniger’s book: ‘You must tell us what terrified you’, Arundhati Roy writes to Penguin India

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A letter to Penguin India (Roy’s publishers)

arundhati_roy“Everybody is shocked at what you have gone and done—at your out-of-court settlement with an unknown Hindu fanatic outfit—in which you seem to have agreed to take Wendy Donniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History off the bookshelves of ‘Bharat’ and pulp it. There will soon no doubt be protestors gathered outside your office, expressing their dismay.

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