Full text of the article, excerpts from which were broadcast on Radio 4's Today program on June 1 in theUK; text courtesy,
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The vulnerable are being cordoned off and silenced. The vociferous are being incarcerated.
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Arundhati Roy, John Cusack, Daniel Ellsberg and the exiled whistle-blower
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'Even though there was no fatwa, no ban, not even a court order, you have not only caved in, you have humiliated yourself abjectly before a fly-by-night outfit by signing settlement.'
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'The rape of the values and the politics that Tehelka claims it stands for, and an affront to those who work there and who have supported it in the past. It is the hollowing out of the last vestiges of integrity, political as well as personal'
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'...as just a touchy-feely “moral” problem then everybody can happily rally to the cause — fascists, democrats, anarchists, god-squadders, day-trippers, the right, the left and even the deeply corrupt, who are usually the most enthusiastic demonstrat
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Full transcript of the speech citing which charges of sedition, promoting enmity between classes, and more have been filed against Arundhati Roy and others
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Reacting to the "court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against me for waging war against the state"
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What is the nature of the agreement between sections of the media and mobs and criminals in search of spectacle?
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'...for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free'
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