New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Congress MP Karti Chidambaram on Tuesday addressed the row over the alleged circulation of former Army Chief MM Naravane's unpublished memoir, Four Stars of Destiny, saying that "if anything is in the public domain, it's publication."

The Congress MP hit out at Penguin Random House, saying that if the publisher has an issue with parts of the book being alluded to, then it should file a copyright infringement case. He further defended Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi, saying only Naravane can disavow the book's contents, adding that Naravane hasn't.

"This is a very archaic understanding of the word 'publication'. In today's modern world, if anything is in the public domain, it's publication. If Penguin has a grouse agains...