Thiruvananthapuram, Aug. 30 -- Kerala Home Minister and senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala has strongly criticised Penguin Random House India over the controversy surrounding the proposed Indian publication of Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi's memoir Belonging: A Journey of Love, describing the reported developments as "editorial capitulation" and warning that any surrender of editorial independence to political pressure could have serious implications for democracy.
Reacting to reports that Penguin Random House India had stepped away from publishing the memoir in India following disagreements over proposed changes to the manuscript, Chennithala said a publishing house that "compromises its spine compromises de...