{"id":414,"date":"2010-03-12T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/03\/12\/free-speech-is-increasingly-under-attack-in-the-worlds-most-populous-democracy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T11:50:00","slug":"free-speech-is-increasingly-under-attack-in-the-worlds-most-populous-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2010\/03\/12\/free-speech-is-increasingly-under-attack-in-the-worlds-most-populous-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Free speech is increasingly under attack in the world&#8217;s most populous democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic\">Free speech is increasingly under attack in the world&#8217;s most populous democracy.<br \/>BY SALIL TRIPATHI | Wall Street Journal, Mar 12 2010<\/p>\n<p>Indians boast of living in the world&#8217;s most populous democracy, and rightly so. Regular elections and vigorous public debate are a rebuke to anyone who thinks that liberty can&#8217;t flourish in a large, largely poor, culturally and linguistically diverse country. But in one area of life officials&#8217; concerns for keeping peace between various religious and ethnic groups is threatening a core freedom: speech.<\/p>\n<p>In a little-noticed case on Feb. 26, police in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh arrested Macha Laxmaiah, an author who writes using the pseudonym Krantikar (&#8220;revolutionary&#8221;), and his distributors, including Innaiah Narisetti, president of the Hyderabad-based nonprofit Center for Inquiry, for &#8220;hurting the sentiments of Muslims.&#8221; Their alleged crime? The distribution of &#8220;Crescent Over the World,&#8221; a book including contributions from Salman Rushdie, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, and a cartoon from the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. Mr. Narisetti is out on bail now; Mr. Laxmaiah remains in custody.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Continues <a href=\"http:\/\/immigrationvoice.org\/forum\/1597557-post253.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Narisetti is a friend of mine and a CFI representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free speech is increasingly under attack in the world&#8217;s most populous democracy.BY SALIL TRIPATHI | Wall Street Journal, Mar 12 2010 Indians boast of living in the world&#8217;s most populous democracy, and rightly so. Regular elections and vigorous public debate are a rebuke to anyone who thinks that liberty can&#8217;t flourish in a large, largely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}