Publish And Perish | The Indian Express

Publish And Perish | The Indian Express

Written by Mini Chandran |Updated: June 28, 2019 12:35:37 am

The writer teaches at IIT-Kanpur.

Publish And Perish

Targeting of a Kerala publishing house expands the ambit of censorship

Censorship is usually a coercive or suppressive process mainly involving the writer and the state, and other stakeholders are largely left alone. (Representational image)

Suppression of free speech by the state is not new in India. There is enough governmental machinery, like the Constitution and laws, to arm-twist writers into silence. But the Kerala government has gone one step further in what can be seen as an attempt to perfect the process, which is to target the staff of the publishing company that published the work.