Friday, October 28, 2011

Ramayana controversy: India's pluralism under threat again

As Delhi University's pusillanimous decision to scrap A.K. Ramanujan's essay on 300 versions of the epic Ramayana shows, vice chancellors and professors easily choose the discretion of trashing a book or a work of art over the valour of upholding the principle of intellectual freedom in a democratic country.
http://ummid.com/news/2011/October/29.10.2011/ramayana_controversy.htm