The Mere Anarchy of Law
India that is more Bharat these days is a democracy,which proclaims to the whole world that unlike socialist dictatorships is ruled by law.It has become quite difficult to understand what…
Freedom of Expression
Exploring the boundaries of ‘Freedom of Expression’
Approximately 6 billion people, constituting about 85% of the global population, associate themselves with a religious belief. Take a moment to ponder over the consequences if people start burning each…
Freedom of Speech in Modi’s India: Beyond Jack Dorsey’s Revelations
Former Twitter co-founder and CEO, Jack Dorsey, claimed that India had threatened to shut down the micro-blogging site unless it complied with government orders. The ex-CEO revealed this on the…
The US Censors Dissenting Voices: On the Attacks Against the Midwestern Marx Institute
by Edward Liger Smith, Carlos L. Garrido, and Noah Khrachvik The First Amendment of the United States Constitution says that “Congress shall make no law… Abridging the freedom of…
Censorship Of Stan Grant, Indigenous Australians & Palestinians, Julian Assange & Truth Tellers
Eminent Australian and Indigenous journalist, Stan Grant, was driven to resign from the ABC (the Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) as compere of the high-rating Q+A TV program by…
Dead Man Walking: One Poet’s Struggle for Freedom of Speech in Bangladesh
On the 26th of April 2023, Mohammad Mofijul Islam, the officer in charge of the Jatrabari police station of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Bangladesh, recorded a general diary alleging that…
Freedom of Expression: Driver for All other Human Rights
Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize recipient in Economic Sciences said, “Free speech and a free press not only make abuses of governmental powers less likely; they also enhance the…
A regime of hurt sentiments
As J.M. Coetzee has written, taking ‘offence’ at something is usually a reaction of powerful and oppressive groups in the face of any challenge to their power or the possibility of…
Zionists & Pro-Zionist, US Lackey Australian Government Threaten Australian Academic Free Speech
Academic free speech is under great threat in Australia (and elsewhere) from authoritarian university managers of corporatized universities, state and federal governments, secret government, foreign governments (notably the US and…
Want to write a book, Contact the Government first
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless…
Do we have right to read books?
Seizure of books before publication is a worst restriction than pre-censorship, which is not permitted under fundamental rights of our Constitution. But it happened recently in Telangana. Right to think,…
The Artist in Contemporary India: Reflections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-F9qu6c_4 I watched Vir Das’ performance with a sense of awe. His words were pure poetry, poignant and powerful. He had chosen each word carefully, with precision and perfection in…
BUJ and DUJ Condemn Arrest of Journalists in Tripura
BUJ and DUJ Condemn Arrest of Journalists in Tripura; Welcome Bail; Demand Withdrawal of all Cases and End to Intimidation of Journalists covering Tripura violence The Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists…
IT Rules 2021: UN Rapporteurs see chilling effect on freedom of expression
The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, published on 25 February 2021 under the Information Technology Act, 2000 will have a chilling effect on the…
Threatening Writers In Gujarat
Statement by writers and readers of Gujarati literature about threats issued against them in the journal Shabdsrushti Gujarat Sahitya Akademi whose autonomy was wrested by the Gujarat government, which then…
Targeting freedom of expression?
Whether Government of India is extending its censorship power to news and current affairs'? The notification by President Ramnath Kovind extends…
FTII Deny Permission To Screen Student Film In Its Own Campus!
Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) admininstrators have stopped the screening of the students' documentary film Hora directed by Harishankar Nachimuthu raising security concerns after receiving threats from ABVP.…
Young Kerala Writer Attacked For Writing About “Padachon” (Creator)
Four men assaulted a young Muslim writer in Kerala on Sunday night for allegedly insulting God in the title of his new collection of short stories. P Jimshar, 26, whose…
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