![]() ![]() ![]() To overturn a ban enforced by the Government of Karnataka on the spiritual leader Maate Mahadevi’s book, Basava Vachana Deepthi. ![]() After all, scarcely a year had passed since the Madras High Court’s ruling in Murugan’s case, when the Supreme Court, which sits at the apex of India’s judiciary, refused Censorship continues to be rampant, and the judiciary still sees the right to free speech, not as a trump, but as a liberty exercisable at the sole command of the state. Now, just over a year later, it is difficult not to view the court’s verdict as anything but an aberration. Write.” This was how the Madras High Court concluded its landmark ruling in July 2016, in S Tamilselvan v The Government of Tamil Nadu, where, in question, was a ban on Perumal Murugan’s Tamil book, Madhorubagan, and its English translation, One Part Woman. Let the author be resurrected to what he is best at. ![]()
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