Original upload date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:08:11 GMT
Mumbai-born Rohinton Mistry's multi-award winning novel 'Such a Long Journey', set in Mumbai of the early 70s, which was being taught as a text to SYBA Eng Lit Students was overnight withdrawn on a de
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mand made by the youngest Thackeray to emerge in the Shiv Sena as the youth leader. Aditya Thackeray, grandson of Bal and son of Uddhav Thackeray, and a student of St Xavier's College, gave an ultimatum to the VC to withdraw the book because it contained references against the Sena. The VC immediately complied.
Here, for the first time in the last one month, Rohinton Mistry, the writer of the novel, reacts on this Fascist ban. Here, filmmaker Anand Patwardhan reads out his eloquent, evocative and enticing but yet unfinished statement against this absolute asinine lunacy.
