When writing kills...a cautionary tale

Provocatively headlined "Come, let's discuss the burqa once again"......an article by the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin cost two lives on Monday when it was used without her permission

Reposted from Sans Serif

The front page of Saptahika Prabha, the weekly magazine section of the Kannada daily Kannada Prabha of the New Indian Express group, carried a controversial piece on the burqa by Taslima Nasrin, which led to protests and riots in Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa's hometown, Shimoga, killing two people on Monday.

The story titled Purdah hai purdah begins on page one of the section with the clarion call "Come, let's discuss the burqa once again" and spills over to page 5, occupying nearly half the broadsheet page. The article states upfront that it has been translated from the original English by "Sindhu" but does not mention the source.