India is increasingly becoming a battleground for “text wars”, as puritanical revisionists try to impose their nationalist agenda. In this lively collection, distinguished Indian and non-Indian contributors tackle the major questions of free expression, communication, censorship and social pressure, but also social and media responsibility. Text Wars: Communication, Censorship, Freedom and Responsibility, edited by Hilda David and Francis Jarman, contains essays, poems, and a cartoon comic-strip, most of them originals written specially for this publication.
Below is Manjula Padmanabhan’s cartoon comic-strip from the book: “The Censor’s Tail”:
This is an excerpt from Text Wars: Communication, Censorship, Freedom and Responsibility edited by Hilda David and Francis Jarman, and published by Oxford University Press in 2021. Republished here with permission from the publisher.
