Scanning through Google News before class, I noticed a piece about the “Indianisation” of the Catholic Church in India. I didn’t have time to read the whole thing before lecture started, but I kept it in a Mozilla tab because the issue of how the Roman Catholic Church, known for its inflexibility in many respects, has been adapted to other parts of the world (as with the frequency of marriage among African priests) interests me. However, when I refreshed the page later, the article, “Going the Desi Way”, had disappeared — it still shows on Google, but nowhere else. What’s more, the URL now carried a message that was on every page of the site:
Subsequent to the notices issued by the Mumbai Police to the Publisher and Editor of Mumbai Mirror and in view of the sentiments expressed by some activist NGOs pertaining to the contents in the November 12- 18 issue of Mumbai Mirror Buzz magazine, we have requested the venders and distributors of the magazine as well as our own sales colleagues to stop sales of this issue, and to return the undistributed material back to us.