[Reader-list] Arundhati Roy and the Threat to Free Speech in India today

[NAGRAJ ADVE]

I have another suggestion for the slightly longer term: that some body or
organization collate and examine the numerous SC judgements over the last
few years that are detrimental to people at large. As an example, one such
that is not too widely known is the recent judgement in the SAIL/Air India
case, that will adversely affect lakhs of contract workers in India.

In solidarity,

Nagraj Adve
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>From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha at sarai.net>
>To: reader-list at sarai.net
>Subject: [Reader-list] Arundhati Roy and the Threat to Free Speech in India today
>Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2002, 12:23 AM
>

>Dear Readers,
>
>This is a posting forwarded to inform all of us on the threats to free speech 
>in India that is embodied in the charges brought against Arundhati Roy 
>(Author of the 'God of Small Things', 'The Greater Common Good' and the 'End 
>of Imagination' ) in the Supreme Court of India
>
>The recepients can:
>* Disseminate the information widely. If they can write in media, that would
>be great. They can write articles, letter to editors, email messages, so on.
>* They can initiate discussions on related issues among their groups and
>through the internet.
>* They can join the dignified demonstration planned on March 6 to say
>that the demostrators would like to join Arundhati Roy in saying what she
>has said in her affidavits, particularly the paragraphs the Supreme Court
>has objected to.
>They can come just outside Indian Law Institute on Bhagwan Das Road outside
>the Supreme Court at 1030 am on March 6.
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