Penguin Random House India has refused to publish a comic by Joe Sacco on anti-Muslim riots caused by Hindutva leaders' genocidal rhetoric in 2013.
The mega publisher would not publish unless the writer modified statements in response to right-wing Hindutva objections.
Shabana Mir
Joe Sacco spent years reporting on a communal riot in Uttar Pradesh for his new work of graphic reportage. But his Indian publisher abruptly dropped the book before it could be sold there. We have published an excerpt