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Chidambaram to decide on US historian's visa
Monday
Saturday March 31, 2012 06:39:33 PM,
IANS
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Minister P. Chidambaram ordered a review of the decision on
cancellation of the visa of US historian Peter Heehs, living in
Puducherry, and said he will take a decision on it Monday.
"This (decision to cancel the visa) was noticed by me this morning
and I understand that the FRRO (Foreigners Regional Registration
Office) Puducherry passed the order," Chidambaram told reporters
Saturday, after presenting the monthly report of his ministry.
"I have asked for a suo motu review and am told that the file
would be submitted to me on Monday and I will take a decision on
Monday," he said.
No reason has been assigned by the regional registration office at
Puducherry for the decision, but it seems that Heehs' ninth book,
"The Lives of Sri Aurobindo" has been targeted by some
fundamentalists as denigratory and blasphemous.
Heehs, an inmate of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, has spent nearly 41
years working on a project of digitisation and archival of works
of freedom fighter and spiritual leader Sri Aurobindo.
Many historians had protested against the move of cancelling his
visa and had also petitioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and
Chidambaram for a review of the decision.
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