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The quality of our independence

Activism of any sort and human rights work in particular is not encouraged in India, and it is almost never safe

Illustration by Binay Sinha
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Aakar Patel
In some ways the organisation I work in resembles a multi-national corporation. Or the United Nations. There are various independent national entities that are working through different programmes in several languages towards a common goal (“human rights for all”). There is a Secretary General and a secretariat, like in the UN. We meet and discuss our successes and the numbers and growth, just like in an MNC, and we did so again a few days ago.

On the matter of numbers, and here again a similarity, India jumps out. There is high growth in the number of Indian supporters and high
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