Hyderabad, Feb. 4 -- Mumbai's Kala Ghoda Arts Festival (KGAF) reportedly cancelled a book discussion on Mumbai police's orders, which was featuring Anand Teltumbde, a civil rights activist and academic.

The event was titled "Incarcerated: Tales from Behind Bars," and was scheduled to be held on Thursday, February 5, where the speakers would have discussed Teltumbde's book, The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir. The discussion also included the author of The Feared: Conversations with Eleven Political Prisoners and the editor of Scroll.in Naresh Fernandes.

Following the event's announcement, Hindutva accounts strongly objected on social media. Several questioned why the Maharashtra government, which is even collaborating with the festiv...