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  1. Indian authorities set to prosecute author Arundhati Roy over Kashmir comments from ten years ago

    "a clear case of political persecution by an authoritarian government," says Seven Stories Press

    #ArundhatiRoy #UAPA #Kashmir

    howtobe247.com/indian-authorit

  2. Arundhati Roy is being hounded by the Indian state. This is a test case for its democracy

    That the author could be prosecuted for comments made 13 years ago is absurd – but also a deadly threat to freedom of speech, writes Meena Kandasamy. (Article from October 2023)

    #ArundhatiRoy #FreeSpeech #UAPA #BJP #NDA #DraconianLaws #kashmir #india

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

  3. .> ZINN: I think your coming here does that. Not only your writing does that but your coming here and us listening to you and knowing that we are part of a 'carass'. Have any you have read Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle? Kurt Vonnegut is remarkable?this remarkable, interesting, odd mind. In Cat's Cradle he talks about a 'carass'. A carass is when people feel an affinity with one another. They don't know exactly why but it crosses all lines. It crosses national, racial, sexual... it crosses all lines. That's what we depend on.
    - https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0211/S00035/arundhati-roy-howard-zinn-new-mexico-transcript.htm
    #HowardZinn with #ArundhatiRoy talking after teh #ComeSeptember speech, talking about #KurtVonnegut's #CatsCradle and the #Carass or #Karass #ZinnOnVonnegut
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    https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Come_September_Roy_020918_transcript.pdf