{"id":62468,"date":"2025-08-07T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=62468"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T10:03:46","slug":"cpim-mp-opposes-ban-on-25-books-in-jammu-and-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/cpim-mp-opposes-ban-on-25-books-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"CPI(M) MP Opposes Ban On 25 Books In Jammu And Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 7: CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP V Sivadasan on Thursday demanded that the ban imposed on 25 books in Jammu and Kashmir should be lifted, and asked democratic forces to oppose it.<br \/>\nTerming the ban \u201cvery painful\u201d, the CPI(M) MP said, \u201cIndia is a democratic and secular country, The ban should be opposed by democratic forces\u201d.<br \/>\nThe Jammu and Kashmir government on Wednesday declared the publication of 25 books, including those written by famous authors like Moulana Moudadi, Arundhati Roy, A G Noorani, Victoria Schofield and David Devadas, as forfeited for \u201cpromoting false narratives and glorifying terrorism\u201d.<br \/>\nThe books include \u201cAl Jihadul fil Islam\u201d by Islamic scholar and founder of Jamaat-e-Islami, Moulana Moudadi, \u201cIndependent Kashmir\u201d by Australian author Christopher Snedden, \u201cIn Search of a Future (The Story of Kasimir)\u201d by David Devadas, \u201cKashmir in Conflict (India, Pakistan and the unending War)\u201d by Victoria Schofield, \u201cThe Kashmir Dispute (1947-2012)\u201d by Noorani, and \u201cAzadi\u201d by Roy. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 7: CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP V Sivadasan on Thursday demanded that the ban imposed on 25 books in Jammu and Kashmir should be lifted, and asked democratic forces to oppose it. Terming the ban \u201cvery painful\u201d, the CPI(M) MP said, \u201cIndia is a democratic and secular country, The ban should be opposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62470,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62468\/revisions\/62470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}