Author and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie discusses the roots of freedom of expression in the Indian tradition at last session of the India Today Conclave, March 17, 2012. Rushdie is the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel whose import is currently banned in India.
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Anabel Hernandez has been described as one of the most courageous journalists in Mexico. Her book Narcoland links top Mexican government officials to the world’s most powerful drug cartels. In 2012, she received the Golden Pen of Freedom award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
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Marking 20 years since its establishment, in this video the Office of the UN Human Rights Office highlights some of the historic human rights events of the past two decades.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the importance of the Tiananmen Square Massacre twenty-four years later, why China should not wait for a savior, and her work with imprisoned writer Liu Xiaobo.
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In this new edition of The Writer’s Block, Sampsonia Way talks to Sridala Swami, a poet and children’s writer. Swami is a resident of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and a performer at the 2013 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Celebrated exiled poet Liao Yiwu performs his poem, “Massacre,” forcing open the memory and aftermath of the Tiananmen Square killings of 1989. He follows this reading with a musical performance with his singing bowls.
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In this Writer’s Block, Sampsonia Way sat down with poet Harryette Mullen to discuss her writing influences, how she revises, and what young writers should know.
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