Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily on Tuesday said the Centre was planning to ban the controversial book by Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor of The New York Times Joseph Lelyveld that has quoted correspondence to suggest Mahatma Gandhi was bisexual.
How is "banning" a book going to prevent people from reading what is written in the book in today's age of freedom on internet? People from around the world will share the book in electronic format. Don't the people have Fundamental Right to Information? Don't free people in a free country have right to know what is written in any book? Are people of this country children that they need to be told by Government what to read and what not to read?
Why ban the new Gandhi book?
How is "banning" a book going to prevent people from reading what is written in the book in today's age of freedom on internet? People from around the world will share the book in electronic format. Don't the people have Fundamental Right to Information? Don't free people in a free country have right to know what is written in any book? Are people of this country children that they need to be told by Government what to read and what not to read?
Why ban the new Gandhi book?