Gautam Bhatia > Quotes

“I was named for flying—after those great birds we see over Sumer. Instead here we are, buried.
I’d brought celebratory drinks, but come, let’s toast irony instead.’
‘I’m not going to celebrate this.’ Mithila’s voice shook.
‘We can celebrate trying.”
― Gautam Bhatia

“however, part of what it means for a democratic polity to accord equal respect and concern to all its members, is to accord to each person an equal opportunity (via communication) to shape the moral, political, and cultural environment in which they live, something that can happen only by embracing a wide, almost untrammelled right to freedom of speech and communication.”
― Gautam Bhatia, Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution