01760nam a22002057a 4500 20260625153653.0 260625b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9788189487454 363.315 DHA Dhavan, Rajeev. Publish And Be Damned : Censorship And Intolerance In India. / Rajeev Dhavan. New Delhi : Tulika Books, , 2008. 312p. ; 20.15cms The 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. India Law Press Law Law Rajeev Dhavan VC OFFICE 69468 69468 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-25 0 363.315 DHA VC468 2026-06-25 15:37:10 2026-06-25 VC OFFICE Books Received from VC office