01704nam a22001817a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200160007610000200009224500840011226000420019630000220023852012070026065000140146765000140148165000080149570000190150320260625153653.0260625b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9788189487454  a363.315 DHA  aDhavan, Rajeev.  aPublish And Be Damnedb: Censorship And Intolerance In India.c/ Rajeev Dhavan.  aNew Delhi b: Tulika Books, c, 2008.  a312p.c; 20.15cms  aThe essays collected in this volume explore the relationship between political and social censorship, and, more significantly, the rise of an insidious communal censorship that seeks to divide civil society and intimidate all those who value the gift of free speech as they burn books, silence dissent, destroy works of art, and intimidate the artist, researcher, writer, film-maker, actor, and free thinker. The author reflects on how free speech in India has been compromised by state censorship through 'slapp' suits in court, and on issues of official secrecy, contempt of court, and censorship by intolerance in civil society and government. More specifically he examines the uses and abuses of the law, the case of harassing Husain, the Danish 'Toon' controversy, and the right to strike. The author argues, unrepentantly, that free speech has to be preserved in the overcrowded spaces of the media, on the streets and in the open spaces of our mind, against the onslaught of corporatism, doubtful governance and invidious divisiveness. Freedom of the mind and the right to self-expression and argument can only survive if intolerance is met with tolerance, and tolerance is not seen as weakness.  aIndia Law  aPress Law  aLaw  aRajeev Dhavan