Goanet Digest, Vol 21, Issue 287

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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "'Stop Silencing Shamita Yadav': 150 Prominent Citizens
      on Goa Police Attempt to Detain the Satirist (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Read: "My First Encounter with Hate" (Vivek Pinto)
   3. Watch: 'I Think Penguin India Is Looking For Excuses To Drop
      My Book': Joe Sacco [an internationally known cartoonist
      journalist.] (Vivek Pinto)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:41:16 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "'Stop Silencing Shamita Yadav': 150 Prominent
	Citizens on Goa Police Attempt to Detain the Satirist
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By: The Wire Staff
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: June 9, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/rights/stop-silencing-shamita-yadav-150-prominent-citizens-on-goa-police-attempt-to-detain-the-satirist
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article.

"?Political commentary, humour and satire are fundamental rights protected
under a free society,? says the statement, whose signatories include
activists, lawyers, rationalists, veterans, doctors, students, teachers and
professors."


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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:10:47 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "My First Encounter with Hate"
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By: Midhat Samra [Midhat Samra is a researcher and multimedia producer at
The Nehru Centre, New Delhi.]
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: June 10, 2026
Source: https://thewire.in/communalism/my-first-encounter-with-hate
*Note:* Please access the source to read the entire article

"The fire of communal hate had finally reached me. Sooner or later, it will
burn all of us.


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:53:34 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Watch: 'I Think Penguin India Is Looking For Excuses
	To Drop My Book': Joe Sacco [an internationally known cartoonist
	journalist.]
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	<CAH3OY9wkC-j-YMvy8KhPjdsJOf-ByiDmcF_kdAVzy7+JA5+4Tw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
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By: Sidharth Bhatia
Published in: *The Wire*
Date: June 10, 2026
Source:
https://thewire.in/books/watch-i-think-penguin-india-is-looking-for-excuses-to-drop-my-book-joe-sacco

"The artist tells Sidharth Bhatia that he got a five-page list of queries
from Penguin UK asking for clarifications and changes.

Joe Sacco is an internationally known cartoonist journalist famous for his
books on Palestine and Gaza. His first book on India, *The Once and Future
Riot,* was published last year, and is about the Muzaffarnagar riots of
2013 between Jats and Muslims that
ended in the death of 60 people and the displacement of 60,000, mainly
Muslims. The book was set to be sold from August onwards, but last week,
the distributors Penguin Random House India stepped back from it.

He got a five page list of queries from Penguin UK asking for
clarifications and changes. 'The main thing for me was changes that seemed
like editorial changes they were asking for, which were removing quotes,
removing quotes about public figures, removing quotes from a public figure
I talked to, even to the extent of move this caption down the page. And I
mean, there were like four or five things that were called requirements
that I simply wasn?t going to do,' Sacco said in a podcast conversation
with Sidharth Bhatia."


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