'Father Stan was not against development'

Wed, 07 July 2021

11:18

"Father Stan Swamy was not anti-development. He was against the grabbing of Adivasi land. He was against displacing people in the name of growth and development," human rights activist and writer Gladson Dungdung tells Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com as he recalls his long association with the 84-year-old activist, who passed away on Monday in a Mumbai hospital while waiting for interim bail on medical grounds in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case. Read the interview here.

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