The dead begin to speak up in India
October 8th, 2011Kashmir is one of two war zones in India from which no news must come. But those in unmarked graves will not be silenced. – Published on The Guardian, by Arundhati Roy, Sept. 30, 2010:
At about 3am, on 23 September, within hours of his arrival at the Delhi airport, the US radio-journalist David Barsamian
was deported. This dangerous man, who produces independent, free-to-air programmes for public radio, has been visiting India for 40 years, doing such dangerous things as learning Urdu and playing the sitar.
Barsamian has published book-length interviews with public intellectuals such as Edward Said, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ejaz Ahmed and Tariq Ali (he even makes an appearance as a young, bell-bottom-wearing interviewer in Peter Wintonick’s documentary film on Chomsky and Edward Herman’s book Manufacturing Consent)
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