“End the self-sabotage: Government must stop lending credibility to those who despise Bharat”, Swarajyamag, December 2, 2024:
“Ahmedabad International Book Festival (AIBF) 2024 has yet again revealed a troubling trend that has plagued the incumbent government over the past decade – failure to vet the guests they invite for various functions, festivals, and programmes.
Organized by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) in collaboration with the Union Education Ministry and the National Book Trust (NBT), AIBF has invited speakers and authors who mock Hindus, are frequent apologists for Mughals and Islamic invaders, work to de-platform inconvenient authors and their works, propagate doubts on EVMs, engage in faux-secularist propaganda, and have nothing but contempt for the present government.
These invitees include William Dalrymple, Savie Karnel, and Kiran Manral. Dalrymple, a known Hindutva critique had pursued the publishing house Bloomsbury to withdraw the book ‘Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story’ written by Monika Arora, Prerna Malhotra, and Sonali Chitalkar. The book was later published by Garud Prakashan……”
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