Censorship – Publications
A comprehensive statement from the civil liberties organisation on the ban of 25 books by the Jammu and Kashmir government. Republished with permission Aug 12, 2025 Withdraw the forfeiture notification on 25 books on Jammu and Kashmir Repeal Section 152 of the BNS which is the colonial sedition law in a decolonial avatar! The omnibus […] Read More
By Geeta Seshu The Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) government’s ban on 25 books on Kashmir by both Kashmiri and non-Kashmiri academics, researchers and journalists on the specious grounds that they promote terrorism and endanger national integrity, among other charges, may have been expressly designed to inject further fear in the Valley. But the […] Read More
In a shocking development, the entire editorial board of the Murty Classical Library of India series has been dismissed! The chair of the Oversight Board Prof Parimal Patil of Harvard University dismissed the editorial board “without cause, explanation of documentation”, says a statement by well known scholars and academics Prof Whitney Cox of the University […] Read More
Political cartoonists keep the system honest. They chip away at the hubris of those in power by laughing at them. Read More
By Ram Puniyani A FIR was registered against 10 Assamese poets (July 10, 2019). These poets mostly Muslims; have been pioneers and are leading lights of what has come to be known as Miyah Poetry. One sample, by the initiator of this trend; Hafiz Ahmed goes like this Write, Write Down, I am a […] Read More
by Geeta Seshu As Pulwama and other constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir go into the final phase of polling for the parliamentary elections on May 6, 2019, one of the Valley’s major English dailies is minus its brilliant cartoonist. “It’s really, really tough. The self-censorship we impose on ourselves. I have to keep thinking of […] Read More
Team that tried to stop event in Chennai taken off duty A few hours after an election flying squad in Chennai served a letter banning the release of a book on the Rafale fighter aircraft scam, the publishing house managed to launch the book by obtaining the nod from the Election Commission of India. Sources […] Read More
Writer Nayantara Sahgal’s stirring address to the 92nd Akhil Bhartiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Yavatmal, Maharashtra, scheduled to have been delivered on Jan 11,2019. On Jan 6, 2019, the invitation extended to her was abruptly withdrawn. As a mark of protest after the killing of writer MM Kalburghi in 2015, she had returned the award […] Read More
Who decides the distinction between pornography and art? By Laxmi Murthy A warm fuzzy feeling surrounds the term ‘comic’ – Archie, Tintin, Batman, Tom and Jerry or Phantom comics coming to mind – colourful, easy on the eye and utterly kid friendly content. It wouldn’t occur to parents to monitor comics their children devour; notwithstanding […] Read More
An Appeal Hariti Publication is an initiative that we began in 2013 with the aim of spreading ‘reading cultures’. We believe that to develop thinking human beings we need to develop reading cultures. With the intention of looking at ‘reading as a movement’ we try and engage in few activities as a Hariti Publication and […] Read More
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