Moreover, in order for the law to clamp down on freedom of expression, it is incumbent upon the petitioner to prove real, imminent danger to communal harmony, and not merely vague allegations of malicious intentions and purportedly scurrilous statements. Could the publishers have more backbone? Dinanath Batra is at it again. Politics is forever a theme we need to go back to, just as we must return sometimes to some of the more dramatic moments in the history of literature. By Sadat Hossain.
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