Over the last few months, activist #KannanGopinathan has symbolised the risk of having a dissenting conscience in times of political and societal uncertainty. An engineer by training, he resigned from his post as an IAS officer after the abrogation of #Article370, only to have a chargesheet filed against him by his superiors.
Gopinathan sits down with Mehraj D Lone to talk about his journey from working on freescale semiconductors to being a bureaucrat posted in Dadra and Nagar Haveli. He outlines his hopes for bureaucratic reforms, decentralisation of power, dissenting against the #CAA, and freedom of expression.
Full interview: newslaundry.com/2020/03/14/nl-interview-kannan-gopinathan-on-the-kafkaesque-nature-of-bureaucracy-and-the-need-to-question-those-in-power
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