“What the elites say is remarkable and the corporate-owned media should give it judicious attention, but what is said outside those circles should be ignored or belittled. Since we don’t know why Tata and Mr. Dharker decided to cancel our session, we can only speculate and simply ask: was this a matter of censorship? ”, Reads in a statement of the two.
Chomsky and Prashad also noted that people needed to be sensitized to various controversies involving the Tatas, since the murder of adivasis peacefully protesting the construction of a Tata steel factory in Odisha in 2006, the use of private militias to allegedly terrorize the population for a planned Tata steel factory in Jagdalpur, Chattisgarh, the use of Tata Advanced Systems weapons by the Indian forces against the people of Kashmir and the release of hexavalent chromium from Tata Steel into water sources that has created the fourth most polluted site on the planet in Sukinda, Odisha.
They said they hoped the platform would provide an open discussion to talk about issues that threaten the world and also about the Tatas.
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