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david conversation: In August 2019, organizers of Vancouver's Indian Summer Festival invited two daring scholars for a bold conversation, according to Georgia Asian. Renowned author Arundhati Roy and U.S.-based journalist David Barsamian discussed Roy's latest book, My Seditious Heart, a collection of her all published political essays, some of which are highly critical of the Indian state. Here, they're photographed in Kak was in Vancouver last year to talk about his film about photographers in Watch David Barsamian's conversation with Arundhati Roy in Vancouver in 1 of 3 2 of 3Now in its 10th year, an annual event celebrating diversity of India in Canada isn't just about entertainment and parties. The talk occurred just when India's right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janta Party BJP government had revoked special rights given to the disputed region of Kashmir and heavily deployed its armed forces there. Breaking the deafening silence in Canada over what is going on in India, Roy and Barsamian discussed a range of inconvenient issues, including Kashmir, which remains under lockdown in the name of national security. Roy pulls no punches when writing against growing attacks on religious minorities and political dissidents under the BJP, which is turning India into a near-Hindu theocracy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.