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The same old question on dissenters and their fate persists in a brand new era, writes Shivaji Sarkar
Protesting farmers in Tikri on Monday
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Is India choking voices to prepare for a future with private companies controlling the country? Or is it just working under their command? The immediate provocation is the treatment meted out to Nodeep Kaur, a labour rights activist and her summary arrest.
The questions are nothing new. A Bengali film, âSagina Mahatoâ(1970), or its Hindi version, âSaginaâ, played by Dilip Kumar in 1974, portrayed how tea gardens repressed workers and a dissenting voice was lured, character-assassinated and then⦠Similar or worse was the portrayal, in 1978, of the labour situation and extortion of Dhanraj Tamang, a tea garden labourer and protester against oppression, played by Uttam Kumar being tortured by the police in connivance with the tea-estate owners and sent to lunatic asylum and kil