The ‘Secret Santa’ occasion organised by the silent studying group Cubbon Reads in Bengaluru’s Cubbon Park Saturday afternoon got here to an abrupt finish after park authorities confiscated a lot of books and detained occasion curators. This had come within the wake of a lot of folks turning up in comparison with the expectations of the organisers.
The Secret Santa occasion concerned attendees depositing wrapped books, which might then be randomly re-distributed based mostly on a numbered chit. Within the speedy wake of the confiscation, the group posted on social media, stating, “We actually hope they offer the books again because it was merely a present… we weren’t doing it for any business purpose.”
In one other assertion, the group acknowledged that the curators had been detained for 2 hours, and had wanted to achieve out to senior officers to be able to depart together with the confiscated books. That they had additional been required to jot down an apology letter. Cubbon Reads alleged in an announcement that the Cubbon Park authorities had threatened the careers of their curators and demeaned those that didn’t communicate Kannada. They additional alleged that they’d been threatened with an FIR and a high-quality of Rs 35,000.
Cubbon Reads has been conducting silent studying occasions inside Cubbon Park since December 2022, with the idea quickly spreading inside Bengaluru and past. As of final June, six such studying teams had come up alongside the identical strains within the metropolis, and dozens extra outdoors Bengaluru and overseas.
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