India, Feb. 5 -- Mumbai police denied permission for a programme titled Incarcerated: Tales from Behind Bars, which was slated to be held on Thursday as part of the ongoing Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF), late on Tuesday night. The event encompassed a discussion on activist and accused in the Elgar Parishad-Bhima Koregaon violence case Anand Teltumbde's book 'The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir' and journalist Neeta Kolhatkar's recently published work 'The Feared: Conversations with Eleven Political Prisoners', at the David Sassoon Library and Reading Room.

Police informed the organisers of KGAF and the two authors about the move through emails on Tuesday night. Organisers were even asked to delete all social media posts and invites ...