World's Largest Democracy Bans Barsamian

wali
October 07, 2011

though i see the point dr. chithra is making and it indeed is a good one, it still doesnt absolve the indian states ban on mr. barsamian or anyone else for that matter. it highlights our governments increasing intolerance of any kind of dissent or protest and thus negates its own democracy…Baudrillard asks in one of his books ‘what is worse than terrorism’ and goes on to answer that it surely is the state that is capable of completely controlling this phenomenon and if we look at all the concessions to liberty that we are being forced to make for the sake of security then we can understand what baudrillard was saying…

Reyaz
October 02, 2011

Here is an article by Arundhati Roy on this issue.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2011/sep/30/kashmir-india-unmarked-graves

And Here is the Hindi translation

http://hashiya.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post.html

EthicalDemocracy
October 01, 2011

This guy Barsamian, a US-born citizen, no less than Awlaki, was rightly banned from entering JKL — Jammu Kashmir Ladakh

Instead of reporting 4m JKL, Barsamian needs to focus on the disastrous military adventurism of his own US govt in the South Asia region.

Glad you were refused entry bro, you got plenty of work to do right here, stateside.
I strongly suggest you spend some time researching your US govt (and mine) and its treacherous alliances paying and training Pak’s ISI,OBL and the so-called Haqqani network. Your govt and mine paid and trained them all.
Be ethical. Don’t become an unwitting arm of your neo-imperial govt and mine — the USA.

Dr. Chithra KarunaKaran
City University of New York
Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice
http://EthicalDemocracy.blogspot.com