Kerala Magazine Controversy

A group of protesters today marched to the office of a Malayalam vernacular magazine here raising slogans, claiming that a novel serialised in the publication defamed Hindu women and the Brahmin community.

The famous Brennen College in Kerala's Kannur has run into trouble over its magazine which ran a controversial sketch of a couple having sex at a movie theatre with the national flag in the background on the screen. The Kerala police have filed a case and booked 13 people who were members of the committee of the college magazine, titled Pellet.

A huge controversy has broken out in Kerala's Thrissur after a government polytechnic published a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their campus magazine under a list of "negative faces" that also includes Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and George W Bush.

A group of protesters today marched to the office of a Malayalam vernacular magazine here raising slogans, claiming that a novel serialised in the publication defamed Hindu women and the Brahmin community.

The famous Brennen College in Kerala's Kannur has run into trouble over its magazine which ran a controversial sketch of a couple having sex at a movie theatre with the national flag in the background on the screen. The Kerala police have filed a case and booked 13 people who were members of the committee of the college magazine, titled Pellet.

A huge controversy has broken out in Kerala's Thrissur after a government polytechnic published a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in their campus magazine under a list of "negative faces" that also includes Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and George W Bush.