India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Whenever a political regime or religious establishment refuses to tolerate criticism, it advertises itself as repressive, backward, and insecure.
I study how governments seek to stifle and control online dissent.
In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.
No government intent on persecuting its critics will want to leave the outcome of a trial to chance.
Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.
