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Civil society tends to become a sort of artificial reservoir for an endangered species: the democratic intellectual, protected by the international institutions

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Upamanyu Chatterjee

Upamanyu Chatterjee is an Indian novelist and civil servant. His published works include short stories and four novels — English, August: An Indian Story, The Last Burden, and The Mammaries of the Welfare State, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award for writing in English. His most recent work, Weight Loss, was published in January 2006.

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Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression

Writers and thinkers, including Tariq Ramadan, Aayan Hirsi Ali and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, debate religion and freedom of expression in the third audio feature from the PEN World Voices literary festival.

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