Karin Deutsch Karlekar
Director at PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers
Past Lives: Indian historian, #PressFreedom guru @FreedomHouse. Present Incarnation: Writers at Risk Director @PENamerica. Former NYer in NJ. 🇺🇸🏴
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Oct 16, 2023 |
transcend.org | Karin Deutsch Karlekar
Karin Deutsch Karlekar | MSNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service In the absence of free expression, other freedoms are quick to die. 13 Oct 2023 – It has been 13 years since the Indian government first considered charges against the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy for sedition, incitement and hate speech for remarks she made about Kashmir in 2010, including her belief that “Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
msnbc.com | Karin Deutsch Karlekar
It has been 13 years since the Indian government first considered charges against the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy for sedition, incitement and hate speech for remarks she made about Kashmir in 2010, including her belief that "Kashmir has never been an integral part of India. It is a historical fact.
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Oct 13, 2023 |
flipboard.com | Karin Deutsch Karlekar
India's case against Arundhati Roy is a big red flag for free speechIt has been 13 years since the Indian government first considered charges against the Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy for sedition, …
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Oct 12, 2023 |
msmagazine.com | Karin Deutsch Karlekar
A chill went down my spine and emotion welled up in my chest as I heard the words “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi” (“Woman, Life, Freedom”) spoken by the chair of the Nobel Prize Committee this past Friday over the live feed from Oslo at 5 a.m. This could only mean one thing I thought: Narges Mohammadi had been chosen for the Nobel Peace Prize. I had been anxiously texting with the young Iranian woman who helps run Mohammadi’s social media accounts in the minutes before the announcement was made.
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Sep 15, 2023 |
pen.org | Karin Deutsch Karlekar |Nadine Johnson
PEN America works tirelessly to defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. Here are some of the latest ways PEN America is speaking out. PEN America kicked off our fall season of literary events with a PEN Out Loud conversation between Zadie Smith and Yaa Gyasi to a full room at The Cooper Union. Across town, we had a sold-out opening reception for Return to Sender: Prison as Censorship, an exhibit co-organized by our Prison and Justice Writing Program.
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