tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post6757127321908233341..comments2024-03-24T12:52:31.153+05:30Comments on Shadow Warrior: Fwd: "Freedom of expression does not mean freedom of defamation" - Monika Arora, legal counsel for SBAC against Penguin IndiaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-83306487908024962572014-02-25T05:20:25.033+05:302014-02-25T05:20:25.033+05:30Thank you, Ms. Arora. Why don't the grand pooh...Thank you, Ms. Arora. Why don't the grand poohbahs of secularism get worked up over the Western ban on holocaust deniers or the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion? Freedom of speech does get regulated in the sanctified West. There are pressures brought to keep Korans from being desecrated in the US, and many stalwarts of press freedom balked at publishing the Danish cartoons. Few Hindus, on the other hand, would wish to have this loathsome book by Doniger banned. They would be happy if other academics took her sloppy and infantile analysis to task; but instead there was a closing of the ranks to keep the Hindu "fundamentalists" at bay. No such concerns for freedom of expression when texts that attack Jewish or Muslim traditions get proscribed, is there?souixsiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17322107865530294169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7813749.post-40553403724206591822014-02-24T12:59:54.933+05:302014-02-24T12:59:54.933+05:30In future instead of agreeing to publishers withdr...In future instead of agreeing to publishers withdrawing books - litigants should insist that they publish the errata as well as rejoinders (e.g. like the one Vishal Agrawal has written on 'The Hindus') on their own cost - or else let the entire legal process complete with attendant criminal convictions. Allowing Penguin to withdraw the book has allowed them and Wendy to play victim and boost sales elsewhere - which was somewhat avoidable.Rajiv Chandranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02993894554395807913noreply@blogger.com