Penguin Random House India has withdrawn Joe Sacco’s latest book on a 2013 episode of sectarian violence after demanding editorial changes the author claimed amounted to “finding excuses” not to distribute it.
The Once and Future Riot is Sacco’s graphic reconstruction of the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where over 60 people were killed and about 40,000 displaced, the majority of them Muslims, in the run-up to the election that brought Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP party to power.
