With such chapters as "A Petition to Stop the Torture of Writers," "Ten Questions for David Davidar," and "Suzanna Arundhati Roy and How We Are All Connected," this series of essays on corruption in Indian publishing, and by extension in Asia, challenges the self-flattering smugness of the Establishment. It exposes the intricate East-West connection, and how the West paradoxically encourages Asian corruption and helps make it possible. The author raises many public interest issues: of freedom, debate, honesty, transparency, and authenticity.

Why should you buy this book? There is NO book like this in existence. It includes a proposed petition by such writers as Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. Why should this matter to you? Because not just Suzanna Arundhati and the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, or Sonny Mehta and Jackie Kennedy, but all of us are interconnected on this little Lonely Planet of ours.

Excerpt:
"Most instances of censorship never make the news, never make the television Evening News or the international wire services. Because most censorship often occurs at the level of the mind itself: The writer squashes the work, the thought, the impulse, before it even has a chance to be born. Why? Because he tells himself, "There is no point writing this, no publisher will ever publish it."