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Hundreds Of Inmates In Kyrgyzstan Sew Their Mouths Shut
Kyrgyzstan’s state penitentiary service says that more than 400 inmates who were on a hunger strike over prison conditions sewed their mouths shut overnight after authorities decided to force-feed them.
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![The Debate That Won’t Die: Havel And Kundera On Whether Protest Is Worthwhile
Until his death on December 18, Vaclav Havel was one of the two most famous living Czech writers in the world. The other is Milan Kundera, now 82 and living in France.
They made for a fascinating duo: Kundera was born into a middle-class family in Moravia, Havel was born into a wealthy family in Bohemia; Kundera was a loyal Communist in his youth, Havel never joined the party; Kundera’s fiction tends to be pessimistic about human nature, whereas Havel’s essays inspired people with their optimism; and while Kundera left Czechoslovakia in 1975 and achieved fame and fortune as a novelist based in Paris, Havel stayed in his native land to live the arduous life of a dissident, either in prison or under constant surveillance by the secret police…[READ MORE]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxqi6uZ5D31qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
The Debate That Won’t Die: Havel And Kundera On Whether Protest Is Worthwhile
Until his death on December 18, Vaclav Havel was one of the two most famous living Czech writers in the world. The other is Milan Kundera, now 82 and living in France.
They made for a fascinating duo: Kundera was born into a middle-class family in Moravia, Havel was born into a wealthy family in Bohemia; Kundera was a loyal Communist in his youth, Havel never joined the party; Kundera’s fiction tends to be pessimistic about human nature, whereas Havel’s essays inspired people with their optimism; and while Kundera left Czechoslovakia in 1975 and achieved fame and fortune as a novelist based in Paris, Havel stayed in his native land to live the arduous life of a dissident, either in prison or under constant surveillance by the secret police…[READ MORE]
