Saket Suman

Saket Suman

Saket Suman is an Indian journalist[1] and literary critic[2][3] with The Statesman. Suman gained prominence for his insight reports on FYUP Row,[4] before being acclaimed[5][6][7][8] for his book reviews[9][10][11] and literary reports.[12][13][14] He writes in-depth articles on major events of national importance,[15] travel,[16] human interest,[17] contemporary literature[18] and is a prominent voice advocating “freedom of speech” and the “right to dissent”.[19][20]

Focus

More recently, Suman has written extensively on the debate around Net neutrality in India,[21][22] reported on the return of prestigious awards by Indian Intelligentsia against the alleged "rising intolerance and threat to free speech"[23][24] and highlighted the plight of "Half widows", wives of men who have disappeared in the Kashmir Valley.[25] In the aftermath of 2016 JNU sedition controversy, followed by the arrest of Kanhaiya Kumar, the elected president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union, Suman’s comprehensive feature report, “Who’s Cassius in Modi’s Rome?” created quite a stir on social media. The report drew a comparison between the then state of affairs to that of Shakespearean tragedy Julius Caesar, questioning the dangerous polarization in the country where anybody could be labeled “anti-national” by any “self-proclaimed nationalist.” He mentioned, “..these self-appointed defenders of nationalism deserve to be questioned, interrogated and penalised for creating such a dangerous state of polarisation as much as those booked under sedition charges for raising anti-national slogans.”[26][27][28] He has also published one volume of poems.[29][30]

Incident

On Saturday, 11 April 2015, Suman was heckled by Delhi Police when he took up the cause of an exploited child labourer at an eatery in east Delhi.[31] Subsequently, an FIR was lodged and the child was reunited with his family.[32]

References

  1. ↑ "The Statesman: I am the one who asked for investigation: Shashi Tharoor". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "The Statesman: End of war, conflict and tension-but at the cost of dreams?". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "The Statesman: Explained: life in book covers". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "FYUP Row | Ink Street". inkstreet.in. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "SECTION-2, 25-06-2015 :readwhere". epaper.thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Statesman: Is your novel as thick as you think?". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Statesman: How flawed is Indian fiction?". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "The Statesman: Rusty and his timeless tales". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "The teacher arrives when the student is ready". The Statesman. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  10. ↑ "The Statesman: ‘Partition continues to cast a long shadow even today’". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Statesman: The fall of a fairy-tale kingdom". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  12. ↑ "The Statesman: ‘Writing a poem is itself an act of hope’". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "The Statesman: ‘Metropolitan India's contradiction fascinates me’". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "Clipping of The Statesman - Delhi - The Statesman". epaper.thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  15. ↑ http://epaper.thestatesman.com/c/9179770
  16. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/section-ii/on-the-road-in-saurashtra/128860.html
  17. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/notebook/on-a-shoemaker/129745.html
  18. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/section-ii/lees-of-slavery-in-colonial-and-post-colonial-fiction/122742.html
  19. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/section-ii/who-s-cassius-in-modi-s-rome/125887.html
  20. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/section-ii/-if-you-have-tears-shed-them-now/125888.html
  21. ↑ "The Statesman: Digital India at the expense of Net neutrality?". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  22. ↑ "SECTION-2, 16-04-2015 :readwhere". epaper.thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  23. ↑ "The Statesman: After 54 days, Sahitya Akademi breaks silence". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  24. ↑ "The Statesman: ‘We can only throw back our awards’". thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  25. ↑ "Clipping of The Statesman - Delhi - The Statesman". epaper.thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  26. ↑ http://www.thestatesman.com/news/section-ii/who-s-cassius-in-modi-s-rome/125887.html
  27. ↑ http://epaper.thestatesman.com/c/8787825
  28. ↑ http://epaper.thestatesman.com/c/8787893
  29. ↑ http://www.poemhunter.com/saket-suman/
  30. ↑ http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poems_by_poet.aspx?ID=26212
  31. ↑ Suman, Saket (12 April 2015). "10-year-old 'Modi' goes missing as cops dither" (Kolkata, New delhi). The Statesman. The Statesman. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  32. ↑ "Clipping of The Statesman - Kolkata - The Statesman". epaper.thestatesman.com. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
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