The furore over Wendy Doniger’s alternative reading of Hinduism, the burning of Perumal Murugan’s novel, the debates in Parliament over an Ambedkar cartoon, the removal of Ramanujan’s essay on the Ramayana from university textbooks, and the murder of Charlie Hebdo editors in Paris over satirical cartoons of Prophet Mohammad are all rooted in purported “public” claims to being offended or hurt. Such incidents have necessitated a ...
