The quality of our independence

Activism of any sort and human rights work in particular is not encouraged in India, and it is almost never safe

In some ways the organisation I work in resembles a multi-national corporation. Or the United Nations. There are various independent national entities that are working through different programmes in several languages towards a common goal (“human rights for all”). There is a Secretary General and a secretariat, like in the UN. We meet and discuss our successes and the numbers and growth, just like in an MNC, and we did so again a few days ago.

On the matter of numbers, and here again a similarity, India jumps out. There is high growth in the number of Indian supporters and high