BOOK BURNING

Book Burning

Book Burning

Summary

Books have been a victim of burning since the year 213 BCE, at least that's by far of what we know. Shih Huang-ti, the Chinese emperor ordered to erase all the literature and books, the whole Chinese history to be erased by burning it all to the ground. So did the students of Mumbai University recently in 2010 of Rohinton Mistry's 'Such a Long Journey' at the gates of the university. These twenty two centuries of book burning is proof enough to show the essential power and value of literature among these people. The only question that arises ...