Relax! It's just a book

When news first broke of Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti (SBAS) also targeting Wendy Doniger's On Hinduism published by the Aleph Book Company, after its success with getting Penguin Books India to withdraw her The Hindus: An Alternative History, Atul Kothari, ...

Narendra Modi … proud to call himself a 'Hindu nationalist'. Photograph: Hindustan Times via Narendra Damodar Das Modi strides to the lectern. Thousands are still crossing the open space around the site of the rally. Tens of thousands more ...

Less than a month after Penguin recalled Wendy Doniger's book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, because an organization called Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti felt it was "derogatory and offensive to Hinduism, another publisher, Aleph, has pulled ...

Publishers of US Indologist Wendy Doniger today denied reports that they had withdrawn copies of her book On Hinduism from the markets. "We are not aware of any such thing except that we are looking forward to the right resolution of the situation," said a ...

By American upscale fashion retailer Nordstrom has removed swimwear carrying image of Hindu Lord Ganesh from its website after Hindus protested, calling it inappropriate. Neiman Marcus, Mara Hoffman and Amazon.com; who also carried Mara ...

When publishing group Penguin abruptly accepted defeat in an Indian court and withdrew a controversial book last month, the backlash was so ferocious it took almost everyone by surprise. A small, hardline Hindu group said it had found the book, The ...

Rupa Publication on Wednesday refuted a media report that claimed it pulled out author Wendy Doniger's book 'On Hinduism'. In an official statement, the publishing house said it was "looking forward to the right resolution of the situation". Earlier, a Times ...

It was a strange yet pleasant coincidence. At a time when Right-wing Hindutva forces are hell bent upon browbeating publishers of American Indologist Wendy Doniger's various books, Madhya Pradesh's BJP Government that shares their ideological ...

Amid reports from Bangalore that Aleph Book Company had pulled out American Indologist Wendy Donigers book On Hinduism from book shops in the city, the publishing house on Wednesday denied knowledge of any such instruction being issued. In a statement, Aleph ...