"From the Grand Mufti's fatwa against the all-girl band in Kashmir, to the now lifted ban on the film Vishwaroopam, to Salman Rushdie's aborted visit to the Kolkata Literature Festival, to the forcible removal of paintings at a Bangalore art gallery to protests against nude paintings at a Delhi art gallery, the freedom of artists, writers and filmmakers is threatened like never before. Group identities are on the ascendant. There are aggrieved bands of proud Hindus, angry Muslims, outraged Marathi manoos everywhere. "Hurt sentiments" of every kind are pushing the country into what Rushdie has already termed a "cultural emergency"." Read more at Sagarika's blog, "Bloody Mary."

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Sagarika Ghose (India & St Antony's 1987) writes about 'The closing of the Indian Mind'

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