Book lovers condemn attack on publication house at Tirupati book fest
The Hindu
Writers and book lovers protest attack on bookstall at Tirupati Book Festival, condemning censorship and promoting freedom of expression.
Writers, litterateurs, academicians and book lovers, under the aegis of the ‘Pusthaka Priyula Aikya Vedika’ forum, took out a procession at Jyotirao Phule Circle in Tirupati on Tuesday, condemning the recent attack on a bookstall at the Tirupati Book Festival. Attackers targeted a stall displaying books on Tamil ideologue E.V.R. Periyar and demanded the books be taken off the shelves.
Forum convener Vaka Prasad condemned the manner in which the attackers launched a “virulent attack” on a publication house. “How can anyone decide or judge which book is to be read?” he asked.
In spite of ideological differences, a book festival is a place for the convergence of thoughts, and it is not proper to pass judgements on which books to be displayed for sale, opined Sahitya Akademi awardee Madhurantakam Narendra. Journalist-turned-writer R.M. Umamaheswara Rao, A. Raghava, Moorisetti Govindu, and Peruru Balasubramanyam were among those who took part.
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