“Arundhati Roy’s ‘Azadi’ among 25 books banned by J&K for ‘promoting culture of victimhood'”, Hindustan Times, August 7, 2025:
“The Jammu and Kashmir government has ordered a ban on 25 books including those for allegedly propagating “false narrative and secessionism”.
Writer-activist Arundhati Roy’s ‘Azadi’; constitutional expert AG Noorani’s ‘The Kashmir Dispute 1947–2012’; political scientist Sumantra Bose’s ‘Kashmir at the Crossroads’ and ‘Contested Lands’ are among the 25 banned books.
A notification of the Home Department in Jammu and Kashmir issued on Tuesday (August 5), signed by principal secretary Chandraker Bharti, argued that such literature “often disguised as historical or political commentary” plays a key role “behind youth participation violence and terrorism…….”
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