[Reader-list] Fwd: A Panel Discussion on the case of Dr. Binayak Sen:Friday, January 28th, 4:00 PM:

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*A Panel Discussion on*

* Seditionist or Prisoner of Conscience*

*State power, civil liberties and the case of Dr. Binayak Sen***

*Friday, 28 January, 2011 at 4.00 PM *

*Lecture Hall, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore*



The Sessions Court of Raipur, Chhattisgarh sentenced Dr. Binayak Sen and two
others to life imprisonment under charges of sedition on the 24th December
2010, which has drawn nationwide and international criticism. Dr. Sen, a
medical practitioner working in one of the most backward areas of the
country, is a sharp critic of the violation of human rights by the state
police and the Chhattisgarh government machinery, in the name of containing
Maoist violence. The judgement, indicting Dr. Sen for ‘sedition’, has opened
up a larger debate on the problematic relationship between the state, its
institutions like the judiciary, and the democratic values they are supposed
to uphold.

The panel discussion will focus on the nature of the judgement in the Dr.
Binayak Sen case and its historical burden. It will also analyse the
political framework of the civil liberties movement and its relation with
the state.

Introduction: * **Dr. Rajesh Kasturirangan, *National Institute of Advanced
Studies, Bangalore

*Panelists*

*Disaffection and the State: A Brief History of the Sedition Law in India*

*Siddharth Narrain*

Legal Researcher, Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore


 *Mainstreaming Resistance in the Neo-Liberal Context: Prospects and
Challenges*

*Dr. V Krishna Ananth*

Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library; Advocate; Freelance columnist,
Chennai



*Experience from the human rights movement in Karnataka*

*Prof. Nagaragere Ramesh*

Member, People’s Democratic Forum, Bangalore; Former Principal, National
College, Bangalore

*All are cordially invited*


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