By banning a tribal writer’s collection of short stories and serving a notice to him, the Jharkhand government has resorted to the age-old tactics of how tyrants of yore used to harass those literateurs they intensely disliked (“ Writer asked to explain his actions ”, August 13).
The State government must understand that poets and writers, being close to the common people, highlight their everyday problems through their works. Instead of choosing to target Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, the State government must make sure that tribals, who are exploited a great deal, reap the benefits of its welfare schemes.
Samiul Hassan Quadri,
Bikaner, Rajasthan
