Booker author in Mumbai University row

Celebrated Indian-born author Rohinton Mistry has strongly objected to his book being dropped from the Mumbai University curriculum.
Such a Long Journey was withdrawn after the nationalist Shiv Sena party staged protests against its "derogatory" references to party members.
Mistry labelled the move "a sorry spectacle of book-burning".
The novel - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1991 - was on the university's second-year Bachelor of Arts syllabus.
A Shiv Sena official met the university's vice-chancellor and objected to the book, which was removed from the syllabus last month.
Many in the arts community - including noted documentary film-maker Anand Patwardhan - have strongly objected to the move which they say was implemented too hastily under the university's "emergency provision" rules.