Articles by Shiv Visvanathan
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The Sadness of Silence
Shiv Visvanathan – The Hindu,
24 Sep 2018
What has become of the Indian intellectual as storyteller? Is he only an annex of the state or can he be critical?
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Shiv Visvanathan – The Hindu,
2 Feb 2015
As spectacles, Mr. Obama will be forgotten while the satyagrahi’s acts of conscience and courage will prompt us to rethink history. The message of Irom Sharmila is the message of Václav Havel, of Mahatma Gandhi, of Martin Luther King; that out of vulnerability can come the agency which emancipates, which understands the other as it battles him.
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