Indian college defies right wing party on book ban...

Just a week after Mumbai Mirror reported how Rohinton Mistry's Booker-nominated novel Such a Long Journey was dropped from Mumbai University's curriculum following pressure from Shiv Sena leader Aditya Thackeray, the budding Sena leader's own college has struck a defiant note, questioning the rationale of banning a work of literature "merely because it dares to critique us."

In a notice put on St. Xavier's college's web site, principal Dr Frazer Mascarenhas S J has expressed his displeasure at Mumbai University's decision to withdraw a book just because it carries a few passages critical of Sena's violent ways. More...

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