: Books, which may get me into trouble #WorldNEWSAll To make life easy for the police, the judiciary and other state authorities, I recommend that all these books be immediately banned in India. Some

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Books, which may get me into trouble #WorldNEWSAll
To make life easy for the police, the judiciary and other state authorities, I recommend that all these books be immediately banned in India.
Some time back a Bombay High Court Judge allegedly asked Vernon Gonsalves, an accused in the Bhima Koregaon case (which is still going on in India 5 years after the incident), why he had a copy of a book War and Peace in Junglemahal (a collection of essays on a revolutionary organisation in India, edited by Biswajit Roy) and the CD ‘Rajya Daman Drohi’, which is a film against state repression, in his home.
The fact that judges and policemen are taking such a keen interest in our reading habits suggests that those who read books, like me, are likely to get into trouble one of these days. I know I will, given what’s on my bookshelf.
Here is what I have:
Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, which is set in the background of the French Revolution of 1789, and Hemingways For Whom The Bell Tolls, set in the background of the Spanish Civil War (with obvious sympathy for the Republicans), so I may be accused of preaching revolution and sedition.
Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov, Maxim Gorky’s Mother, and John Reed’s Ten Days Which Shook the World are set in the background of the Russian Revolution of 1917, so I may be charged with Bolshevism and insurrection.
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo refers to the French Revolution of 1830 and speaks favourably of the French Revolution of 1789 (in the chapter ‘The Conventionist’ or ‘The Bishop in the presence of a New Light’).
The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller seems to preach revolution. So do the works of Rousseau and Thomas Paine.
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya’s Pather Dabi refers to a revolutionary organisation, and was banned by the British (the price of one copy at one time was said to be the price of a Mauser pistol).
Much of Urdu poetry sounds revolutionary e. g. ‘Hum Dekhenge by Faiz, and ‘Kya Hind ka Zindaan Kaanp Raha Hai’ by Josh, so Urdu poetry books are dangerous.
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck seems to preach agrarian revolution.
Edgar Snows books Red Star Over China and Red China Today, are sympathetic to the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Dickens novels may stir up public discontent against the prevailing social order, as do works of Upton Sinclair,
Pablo Neruda, Shaw, Premchand, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Subramania Bharathi, which all I have in my bookshelf.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, the short stories of Maupassant and Manto, the Rubaiyats of Omar Khayyam and a lot of Urdu poetry may appear to His Lordship to be obscene, lascivious, salacious or lewd, and calculated to deprave.

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