To ban books on the basis of ‘hurt sentiment’ with no nod to scholarship or debate is untenable: The Outlook...
The Hindus: An Alternative History
If there was ever a time for the judiciary to redeem itself and to end the ambiguity about free speech,...
The news from India these days is rarely cheery. The country’s long-overdue winning streak in the international press, which saw...
An ancient law that criminalises opinion has been used to suppress a scholarly work on Hinduism. G Vishnu deconstructs the Wendy Doniger controversy in...
(The writer is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and director of the India Initiative at...
Days after Penguin decided to pulp American author Wendy Doniger's book 'The Hindus: An Alternative History' following an out-of-court settlement,...
Legally India editor Kian Ganz was in an online Q&A today, fielding some excellent and insightful questions on freedom of...
A letter to Penguin India (Roy's publishers) "Everybody is shocked at what you have gone and done—at your out-of-court settlement with an...
All copies of American scholar Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus: An Alternative History", published by Penguin, will be recalled within six...
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