Santosh Helekar: Is he saying that we need less people like Mashelkar and more people like Arundhati Roy?
Response: India needs more people like Mashelkar as well as Arundhati Roy, Medha Patkar, Teesta Setalvad and Dr Binayak Sen. They are the voices of the underdog, the downtrodden and the marginalised who do not have the resources to highlight their plight and arouse the conscience of the nation. It is a measure of their situation that the poor adivasis who are exploited are condemned as maoists when they fight back unable to tolerate injustice any longer, but the criminals in uniform who can kill, maim and torture go scotfree. Regards, Marshall
