His publisher, Kannan Sundaram, said the author had also been receiving threatening phone calls over the past month. He will continue to live as a teacher," he wrote in a Facebook post in which he also promised to compensate booksellers for any losses. Murugan disappeared from public view on Tuesday and announced he would no longer write books. Perumal Murugan's publisher was pulling all copies of his 2010 novel "Madhorubagan" - published in English in 2013 under the title "One Part Woman" - from shelves on Thursday after Hindu nationalists and caste groups organized weeks of protests in the southern state of Tamil Nadu demanding Murugan delete portions of the Tamil-language book because they found them offensive. NEW DELHI (AP) - An Indian novelist went into hiding and said he has quit writing after his latest book about a woman's efforts to get pregnant with a stranger sparked virulent protests by right-wing Hindu and caste groups.
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