Two Penguin authors, Jyotirmaya Sharma and Siddharth Varadarajan, want their books withdrawn, pulped

• Terrifying Vision: M.S. Golwalkar, the RSS and India Jyotirmaya Sharma
• Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism Jyotirmaya Sharma
• Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy Siddharth Varadarajan

TNN | Feb 17, 2014,

Penguin authors Jyotirmaya Sharma and Siddharth Varadarajan have asked the publishing house to withdraw their books and pulp them.

Both have emailed their demand to the under-fire publishing firm for agreeing to an out-of-court settlement with a Hindutva group to do the same with Wendy Doniger's book, 'The Hindus: An Alternative History'.  continue reading

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•  Penguin's withdrawal of The Hindus, An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger won't make it disappear

`God' Word Usage Counted as Harvard, Google Scan Digital Books

The history of publishing industry in the Google age has a different turn. It is not anymore quantifying the frequency of titles/articles published by authors, subjects, countries, decades, and centuries--aka bibliometrics. It is now about the socio-psycho-liinguistics, semantics, usage, keyword frequency, etc.

The following is one sample of this emerging scenario:

• `God' Word Usage Counted as Harvard, Google Scan Digital Books Bloomberg
• Changes in language and word use reflect our shifting values, UCLA psychologist reports, Study analyzes more than 1 million books published over 200 years, By Anna Mikulak and UCLA Newsroom
• Language in books shows how we have grown more selfish, By Richard Gray, Telegraph
• Google Book Tool Tracks Cultural Change With Words : NPR