The War Against Sympathy

“As growth under globalization fails to alleviate the physical miseries of people around the country and voices of dissent grow, such cowardly state actions are only to be expected, a sure sign of illegitimacy and insecurity on the part of ruling cliques.”

The above in a note from my friend Aseem Shrivastava on the arrest and imprisonment of Prashant Rahi near Dehradun. Click here for a report on the case by Rahul Pandita, and here for a wide survey of recent cases of arrest and harrassment of those accused of leftist sympathies.

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