Bloomsbury publishing group was about to publish Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story, a book based on the Delhi riots. But under pressure from the the Left, they stopped publishing the book. Now Garuda Publishing Group will publish this book. The authors of this book are Monica Arora, Sonali Chitalkar and Prerna Malhotra.
During the virtual release of the book on 22 August 2020, the pressure was created from the Bloomsbury UK headquarters. After which the publishing group suddenly refused to publish the book.
The author of the book, Monica Arora, gave information about this. He told that in view of the sentiment of the people, she has decided that Garuda publication will publish the book. It is currently running as a startup. The writer also mailed Bloomsbury Publishing Group in this regard. But after taking no response from there, she made this decision. In the mail, she candidly asked if the publication was stopping publishing this book? They should give this thing in writing but Bloomsbury gave this information over the phone. That is, no written action was taken to end the agreement.
The author of the book Monica Arora also gave information by tweeting on this issue. In the tweet, She wrote, “There was no written communication with us after the request. We cannot kill our book, people want to buy this book. We have no choice but to accept another publication group. “
Confirming this, Garuda Prakash also tweeted. They also thanked the author of the book, Monica Arora. He wrote in his tweet, “Friends! Thank you for all your cooperation. Let us take this book from door to door. ” After this, the publication group also tweeted and informed that the book will be released in both Hindi and English language. This book will be made available soon.
It is notable that as soon as Bloomsbury refused to print the book, the Garuda publishing group proposed to publish it.
The entire book “The Book of ‘Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story” is based on investigations and interviews conducted by its authors. The book was to be published next month. 100 copies of the book were also made available to the writer. In addition, the book was also available for pre-order on Amazon. But as soon as the authors spoke about the release of the book through video conferencing in the presence of BJP leader Kapil Mishra, all the leftist leaders including Congress started campaigning against it.
Bloomsbury declined to publish the book after commentary and outrage from leftist historians such as William Dalrymapple. Before doing so, they did not think it necessary to inform the author of the book. Garuda Prakashan is an Indian publishing group. It was started by Sankrant Sanu and he was accompanied by Ankur Pathak. Recently, this publishing group published Vivek Agnihotri’s Urban Naxal.