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Why it is important to listen to writers and thinkers from Arundhati Roy to Yanis Varoufakis
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Why it is important to listen to writers and thinkers from Arundhati Roy to Yanis Varoufakis
All democracies take pride in protecting free speech. Space for dissent is what differentiates a democracy from a dictatorship. But even in democratic societies, dissenters do not have it easy. Some get killed for their views (Narendra Dabholkar, M.M. Kalburgi, Gauri Lankesh come to mind), some end up in jail (Anand Teltumbde, Umar Khalid), while those neither killed nor jailed are marginalised. As a result, they are frequently misunderstood. Their ideas don’t get the currency they deserve. This book seeks to remedy this by profiling seven dissenters: Arundhati Roy, Oliver Stone, Kancha Ilaiah, David Irving, Yanis Varoufakis, U.G. Krishnamurti and John Pilger.