Such A Long Journey, the 1990 Booker-nominated novel by Rohinton Mistry, which has been part of the Bachelor of Arts (English) second year syllabus since 2007, has been dropped as per a notification issued by Bombay University’s recently appointed vice chancellor Rajan Welukar. Following complaints by some BA students about "anti Shiv Sena passages” in the novel, Aditya Thackeray, the 20-year-old grandson of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, convened a meeting of the student wing of his party at Sena Bhavan and, at his suggestion, the Bhartiya Vidyarthi Sena (BVS) launched a protest by burning copies of the book. The......