Hindustan Times
The first time most of us heard of Mushirul Hasan was in 1992. Asked whether he supported the ban on The Satanic Verses, Hasan said that while he found the book deeply offensive, he did not believe in banning books. Read more
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Gandhi, Hasan, hindustan times, Hindutva, islam, Islamic fundamentalists, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Mushirul Hasan, Muslim community, Nehru, The Satanic Verses
I knew, last week, that I would be expected to write about the Taslima Nasreen controversy. I chose not to for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was exhaustion.
How many times can one make the same points again and again? How many times will readers be expected to read more or less identical liberal-outrage pieces on Taslima, all of which make roughly the same points?
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Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Congress government, CPM, crypto-Communist, Khushwant Singh, Murli Manohar Joshi, Muslim Organisations, Rushdie, Sangh Parivar, secular' organisations, Shrabani Basu, Sunday magazine, Taslima Nasreen, The Satanic Verses, UPA
