Fears coming true!

My fears about the Shiv Sena launching a larger campaign against Rohinton Mistry's Such a long journey seems to be coming true. The Shiv Sena has said that it is a book not fit enough to be taught in any university course but only good enough to be sold at railway stations. One hopes that it stops there and does not get foolishly raucous and into street actions, a la the campaign againt the movie, Fire.

However, one must concede a point - if we fault the Sena for this attitude, how can one digest the high decibel protest by Congress spokespersons like Manu Abhishekh Singhvi threatened legal action against Javier Moro for his Red Saree, an unauthorised tale of the Nehru-Indira family as told through Sonia Gandhi? The intelligentsia did not make much fuss.

There cannot be two ways of looking about it. We cannot be ambivalent about freedoms.

It does not however mean we accept the Sena's view point. Far from it.

But one ought to appreciate the single-minded reportage of the Mumbai Mirror, about which thehoot.org, a media website and I took note of. The press woke up to the issue but in a desultory manner, is at it.