On Taslima Nasreen and Free Speech

A public statement by Mahashweta Devi, Arundhati Roy, Ashish Nandy, Girish Karnad, (amongst others) on Taslima Nasreen that I found here: At a time when India is projecting itself on the world’s stage as a modern democracy, while it hosts international literary festivals and book fairs, the Government of India, most mainstream political parties and their armed squads are mounting a concerted assault on peoples’ right to Free Speech?It is a matter of abiding shame that even as some of the world

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