J&K Home Department Headed By LG Bans 25 Books, Including Ones By A.G. Noorani, Arundhati Roy
Jehangir Ali | 07 August 2025 | The Wire
The Jammu and Kashmir administration has paved the way for seizing 25 book titles, some of which have been authored by top Indian and foreign writers and historians, for “promoting secessionism” and “inciting violence against [the] Indian state” in the Union territory.
An order issued on Tuesday (August 5) by Jammu and Kashmir’s home department, which is headed by lieutenant governor Manoj Sinha, states that these books “propagate [a] false narrative” on Jammu and Kashmir that was a “significant driver behind youth participation in violence and terrorism”…