India’s literary icons face persecution

Even as the Kenyan literary critics’ world seems to have closed up into a cycle of cannibalism, half the world away, on the sub-continent of India, literary splits seem eminently more serious.

It took a nocturnal intervention by State actors in India four Sundays ago to get Bollywood movie and television script writers back to writing, with promises of 15 per cent royalties, after these creatives threatened to bring the world’s largest movie-making machine to a grinding halt in a country that loves its local films.