If you’re keeping up with the news, then you know, even with little context that there’s are protests going on India. (📹)

I’ll give a brief explanation, the protest is against the ruling party (BJP), and for the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar, chief election commission. 130 million people have been taken off from draft electoral rolls, most of these people are from minority communities or people who generally wouldn’t vote for BJP. (🔗)

This is not really the point, just some relevant context and overview of the ruling party. A lot of us in India are intimately familiar with BJP propaganda, most of parents are BJP supporters and dissent comes at great personal cost for many.

I wanna shed some light on the censorship aspect of this (BJP’s ethos, really), particularly in regards to books.

Sonia Gandhi, mother of the opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and a politician in her own right, has written a memoir that was set to published by Penguin Random House India. PRHI requested (no doubt because the ruling party had a problem) that Gandhi make “certain editorian changes” to her memoir, i.e. “references to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his 12-year rule; the role of the RSS; references to instances of communal divide and riots, and the plight of minorities.” (🔗)

Gandhi rightfully rejected such changes and the deal fell through.

I’ll quote the article for these two other instances of suppression of publications and provide context if necessary (and if I have adequate insight).

PRHI earlier [in 2026] said it had “not printed” former Army chief General M M Naravane’s memoir Four Stars of Destiny, after a hard copy was displayed by Rahul Gandhi in Parliament. Media reports had carried excerpts from the manuscript concerning the Galwan clashes and the Agnipath scheme.

In June, PRHI also pulled the plug on graphic novelist Joe Sacco’s book The Once and Future Riot, about the Muzaffarnagar riots. PRHI CEO Gaurav Shrinagesh had then said the publisher had raised “content issues” with the author during legal scrutiny, including concerns over a map showing inaccurate boundaries of India.

This is a document history of the ruling party wanting to stifle any mention of anything that could make them look bad: soldiers dying, communal violence, castism, Kashmir. Book banning is part and parcel of that. And PRHI is also an extraordinarily spineless publishing house.

There’s another new instance of this, this time an attempt to suppress the use of particular books in colleges that goes against BJP’s narrative.

Some right-wing account on Twitter posted a list of textbooks and reference materials prescribed in some India universities, a lot of these books pertain to caste abolishing and feminism. These books are at attributed to courses at JNU, DU, and CUP. JNU in particular has been a hub for leftist political activities and it’s students and faculty is constantly antagonized by mainstream media.

The Prime Minister’s Office saw this tweet, which prompted the Department of Higher Education to seek enrolment details from Central universities. (🔗)

I made a list of all the books that are apparently being used to poison the mind of youth by the leftist cabal. I urge you to check them out, regardless of whether of you’re an Indian citizen or not. These people are trying to make critical–thinking criminal.

(Btw, a lot of my sources are wikipedia. If you have better sources, feel free to post here).