He is. He and his political party have been called out by Arundhati both on domestic and international stage. She has been and is aware of the risk to her life & liberty, yet has refused to be silenced. A few days, she attended a ''free the press' protest against the persecution and arrest of one of India's leading jounalists, Prabir Purkayastha, founder of newsclick.in and Amit Chakraborty human resources headof newsclick.