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Advani's autobiography stirs hornet's nest in Kashmir
Indo-Asian News Service
Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L.K. Advani's autobiography "My Country, My Life" has stirred up a hornet's nest in Jammu and Kashmir.
Advani, who was the home minister when the regional National Conference passed its autonomy resolution in the state assembly in June 2000, has written that the party patron and the then chief minister Farooq Abdullah was clearly told he would have to walk out of the NDA alliance and power if he chose to stick to his autonomy demand.
Advani has also written that the National Conference preferred to be in power rather than pursue the demand with New Delhi.
Reacting angrily to Advani's assertions, Abdullah said here: "We would rather die than surrender our autonomy demand. Advani's book is a bundle of lies and I refute it. We had put forth a legal document in the shape of the autonomy resolution which New Delhi is neither able to vomit nor digest."(Posted on March 26, 2008)
High court cancels Kolkata book fair
Indo-Asian News Service
The world's largest non-trade book carnival stands cancelled for now with the Calcutta High Court Monday ruling against the organisers' decision to hold the annual book fair in the city's central hub of Park Circus, primarily on environmental grounds.
After hearing two petitions filed by people living near the venue, a division bench of Chief Justice S.S. Nijjar and Justice Pinaki Chandra Ghosh ruled against the Publishers and Booksellers Guild's decision to hold the 33rd Kolkata Book Fair at Park Circus Maidan.(Posted on January 29, 2008)
Gandhi sells: 200,000 experiments with truth sold a year
Indo-Asian News Service
Sixty years after he was assassinated, Gandhi lives. Not just in textbooks and speeches but also through his autobiography "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" which continues to sell an incredible 200,000 copies a year.
As the world Wednesday marks his 60th death anniversary and remembers the man who lived and died for his mantra of nonviolence, hundreds of thousands of people are still buying his autobiography to try and get an understanding of the man who went from becoming Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to simply the Mahatma - or the great soul.
"Love for Gandhi and his ideology has not faded even 60 years after his death. Every year we sell about 200,000 copies of his autobiography," said Jitendra Desai, managing trustee of Navajivan Trust, copyright owner of all his works.
"His autobiography was a bestseller, is a bestseller and will be a bestseller in the coming years," Desai told IANS.
Interestingly, Kerala accounts for nearly half of all the copies sold in India.(Posted on January 29, 2008)
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