The Supreme Court on Wednesday, 5 September, dismissed a plea seeking to ban the book Meesha for allegedly depicting Hindu women visiting temples in derogatory light, saying "craftsmanship of a writer deserves to be respected".
A bench headed by Chief justice Dipak Misra said a book must not be read in a "fragmented manner" but as a whole.
The bench also said that the writer should be allowed to play with words like a painter who plays with colour.
The apex court's order came on a plea by Delhi resident N Radhakrishnan, who had sought to omit excerpts from the Malayalam novel Meesha (Moustache) written by S Hareesh.
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