I do not understand as to why people criticise on anyone’s personal life? Those don’t have ability and courage to criticise on the thoughts of any person they start such cheap personal attacks. And when someone start personal attacks it makes clear the defeat of the person who do such personal attacks instead of debate on the main issue. So I don’t care such person who is already defeated, let him expose himself a cheap defeated unable person.

Banning the Book will give more exposure to the Author and propagation of the task in it so instead of banning the Book let the people go through it and let them think what is right and what is wrong.

Exactly, you understood the message of my post 100%. But some people do not want to the people to think. They do not want people to think as free individuals. They want to control their thinking as per their aim.

He who can not think, is a fool; he who will not, a bigot; he who dare not - a slave!

So you can understand the ultimate aim of those people is to, control the thinking of people to such an extent that they ultimately reach a point where people dare not think and become - a slave.

“When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.” - Thomas Paine

" Mahatma Gandhi was bis*xual. "  ---   it is wrong. several writers wrote that he experimented with s*x that also in his old age, which is in his matured state. i first time seeing that someone claimed such. if the book banned, it will help to sale the book.

" some people do not want to the people to think"

----   why the people to be allowed to think !  that job contracted to harshad meheta,  hasan ali etc. common people are the raw material of cheap labour.

Gandhi ne ugaye bhati-bhati ke suman sab,

sahaj khila ho woh phul bhi nahi hai woh,

gandhi yadi hote maaf kar dete kintu ,

maaf kar dene wali bhool bhi nahi hai woh,

desh drohiyon ke ur chubhta ho bar bar,

gandhi badi ban ke babool bhi nahi hai woh,

jiski charan raj se pawitra yah bhoomi,

oos pag pawan ki dhool bhi nahi hai woh!

SAMAY NAHI HAI SUNNE WALA,FIR BHI UNKA GAANA DHEKH,

AUR GAATE GAATE SAAT SURO MAI LOGO KA CHILLANA DEKH,

KAHAN SE AAYE KAISE AAYE KHUD JINKO MAALOOM NAHI,

WO GANDHI KO PAATH PADHATE UNKA BHI PAGLANA DEKH!

Sachai chhup nahi sakti banawat ke usoolon se,

Khusboo aa nahin saktee kagaj ke phoolon se!

Ban will be a greater insult: Tushar by Amruta Byatna, The Hindu

l

Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is the latest book the Maharashtra government has decided to ban in spite of having faced charges of suppressing freedom of expression in the past.

On Tuesday, the government said it would take steps to ban the book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor of The New York Times.

Although the book has not yet been released in India, reviews published in the media have created a controversy over descripttion of the Mahatma as a ‘racist' and ‘bis*xual'.

Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily, who was in Pune on Tuesday, said: “The book denigrates the national pride and leadership. We will not tolerate this. We will consider prohibiting the book.”

However, the Mahatma's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi has opposed the ban.

“If the government of Maharashtra bans the book, it will be a greater insult to Bapu than that book or the author might have intended. I will challenge the ban,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted.

Pointing out that he was against the culture of banning books, Mr. Gandhi said: “How does it matter if the Mahatma was straight, gay or bis*xual? Every time he would still be the man who led India to freedom.”

Shrinking liberal space

Banning books is not new in Maharashtra, where civil society has criticised the shrinking liberal space.

In 2004, the government banned Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India, written by the American author James Laine, under pressure from pro-Maratha outfits.

The book had controversial references to Shivaji's biological father.

The ban, however, was overruled by the Supreme Court, which in July 2010, upheld the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression.

However, under pressure from various organisations, the government went ahead with its plan, ensuring that the publisher, Oxford University Press (OUP), did not bring out the book in the market.

Succumbing to pressure

The same year, succumbing to pressure from the Shiv Sena youth wing, Mumbai University dropped Rohinton Mistry's Such a Long Journey from its syllabus, alleging that the book contained remarks derogatory to Maharashtrians. Even then, the State government had criticised of being a mute spectator to the incident.

---------------------------------

Ditto from me.