Penguin lacks spine, govt is nervous, we're not a democracy but electoral autarchy: former Cabinet Minister, Editor and Author, Arun Shourie, to Karan Thapar for The Wire.

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Reports that Penguin Random House India will not be publishing Sonia Gandhi’s memoirs whilst Alfred Knopf will publish them in America have raised worrying questions. Does this mean the book will be available abroad but perhaps not in India? Is this because of its references to Prime Minister Modi, the RSS and Chinese intrusions into India as reports suggest? What does this reveal about Indian publishers? More importantly, what does it reveal of the government in a country that boasts it’s the mother of democracy? Those are the key issues I shall raise today with my guest. He is a former cabinet minister and newspaper editor a ...