ID: 8670  -  Marina Camboni  -  Macerata Type: Text Format: Medium: Article Extent: 5 pp. Identifier: Source: Title: Intellectual Repression In India Subtitle: Alternative: Agents: Creator: Role: Name: Created: Date: Issued in/on: 1939-04 Language: English Rights: Relation: IsPartOf Qualifier: Life and Letters To-day Apr.1939 21-25 Coverage: Place: India Time: 1939 Description: Megherian explains how the intellectual and civil liberties are suppressed in India by England which claims to be a democracy and fights for freedom of speech and expression in Europe, while enforcing censorship and control of any publication in India. Unethical imperialism is seen by the author as the weakness of such democracies. Subjects: Places Subjects: Places Subjects: Identity Subjects: Identity Subjects: Arti/Facts Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Definitions of Culture Subjects: Peace Subjects: Peace Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: Cultural Practices Subjects: War Subjects: Wo/Men Keywords: England Keywords: India Keywords: civil rights Keywords: human rights Keywords: Life and Letters To-day Keywords: civil rights Keywords: human rights Keywords: civil rights Keywords: human rights Keywords: censorship Keywords: democracy Keywords: imperialism Keywords: imperialism Keywords: Churchill, Winston Leonard S. Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, England) Query Subject+Keyword: (Places, India) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, civil rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Identity, human rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Arti/Facts, Life and Letters To-day) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, civil rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Definitions of Culture, human rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Peace, civil rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Peace, human rights) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, censorship) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, democracy) Query Subject+Keyword: (Cultural Practices, imperialism) Query Subject+Keyword: (War, imperialism) Query Subject+Keyword: (Wo/Men, Churchill, Winston Leonard S.) Comment: The tie of Life and Letters To-day with the age in which it is published is well expressed in the importance given to political messages of literature. The first way of taking sides with a certain politics for Herring and Townshend consists in their sharp opposition to literary censorship that in those years is widespread and seems to be accepted as a rule by many in England too. Freedom of expression is in fact one of the hinges of the literary politics that the editors chose for this magazine. The article by Sarkis Megherian published in the issue of April 1939 especially deals with the attitude of the English government against freedom of expression in India, which in the '30s was still submitted to the British rule. After describing the situation of lack of freedom as for speech or press in his country, the author closes his piece with a direct criticism to all the so-called democratic powers of that age unable to grant the fundamental rights in countries such as India.