Written by Paromita Chakrabarti |Updated: November 22, 2019 2:34:29 pm
Article of Faith
What a withdrawal of a new picture book, The Art of Tying a Pug, which has run into trouble with a section of the Sikh community, means for India’s children’s writers
This book is about the thing it says on the cover” – announces the opening page of Natasha Sharma and Priya Kuriyan’s just-published picture book The Art of Tying a Pug. What follows is a delightful account of just that — a young boy in a patka trying out his father’s instructions on how to tie a perfect pagdi — on his pug. The book, published by Chennai-based Karadi Tales, and Sharma’s tribute to her turbanned grandfathers and father, has run into trouble with a section of the Sikh community for its apparent intent to hurt religious sentiments, leading the publisher to withdraw the book from its catalogue and de-list it from online commercial platforms.
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