Award-winning writer S. Hareesh has withdrawn his novel Meesha (Moustache), which was being serialised in the Mathrubhumi Weekly, following threats from alleged Sangh Parviar outfits.
The novel, about life in Kerala half-a-century ago, had raised the hackles of alleged Sangh Parivar activists, who found portions of a dialogue between two characters in the novel objectionable and had launched a cyberattack against Mr. Hareesh and his family members, threatening them with physical violence.
On Friday, a group of Bharatiya Janata Party-Hindu Aikya Vedi activists vandalised an exhibition of books on spirituality organised by Mathrubhumi Books at Thripunithura in Kochi, in protest against the novel.
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