The deliberations of a court in one of the oldest towns in the Siberian region of Russia, Tomsk has drawn the attention and anger of the Indian polity. In a move, which some say symbolises the rise of the religious right in Russia, State prosecutors in Tomsk are arguing that a translated version of the Bhagwad Gita is an “extremist religious” text which sows discord, a book whose distribution should be banned since the text is insulting towards “non-believers” according to a Reuters report.