LIRNEasia’s first book was launched at a ceremony at IIT Madras in December 2007. Three months later, the book is not yet available for sale in a Sri Lankan bookstore. Why?
According to Sage India, a respected academic publisher, the book is held up at Sri Lanka Customs. The problem is that it came in the same shipment as a book by an English scholar teaching at the Colombo University which had the word militarization in the title. So Customs or whoever are reading the entire shipment to see if it any of the books have anti-state content. This has taken several weeks, leading us to wonder whether they are reading all the copies, unaware that reading one is enough.
Now I have no objection to the Customs…
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