Jaipur: Free speech is facing a threat in India sprouting from “religious motivations, political biases and social judgments” and this reflects “apathy” on the part of the state, Juergen Boos, the President and CEO of the Frankfurt Book Fair, observed on Wednesday. “Attempts in the recent past to silence journalists,[Read More…]
Tag: Free Speech
The fight for right to privacy has more to do than just Aadhaar
In the year 2012, Justice (Retd.) K.S. Puttaswamy filed a petition before the Supreme Court challenging that the Aadhaar violated, among other things, the fundamental right to privacy. The petitioner contended that forcing the citizens to part with their biometric information and the unencumbered power that the State comes to[Read More…]
Erdogan’s Turkey blocks Wikipedia
Turkey has blocked all the access inside the country to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia without giving any official reasons. According to ‘Turkey Blocks’ monitoring group, the site was inaccessible from 08:00 (05:00 GMT) by order of the Turkish authorities. People in the capital Istanbul were unable to access any Wikipedia[Read More…]
Watch: Playing Manto, Nawazuddin Siddiqui bats for free speech in Nandita Das’s short
Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has transformed to celebrated Pakistani author Saadat Hasan Manto in Nandita Das’s six-minute long short film In Defence of Freedom. The film features the firebrand writer lecturing a group of students and professors on free speech and freedom of expression. As Manto, Nawazuddin extensively argued for his[Read More…]
Nagpur University puts off Sitaram Yechury’s speech
Desire for peace won’t make terrorists in Pakistan surrender weapons: Rajeev Chandrasekhar’s letter to Gurmehar Kaur
Gurmehar Kaur, a 20-year old student of Lady Sri Ram College, has been on the spotlight since her campaign opposing ABVP violence in colleges and her call for peace between India and Pakistan went viral. She has been trolled by right wing supporters ranging from a normal bhakt to cricketer[Read More…]
IIMC suspends student for writing article criticising institution
Indian Institute of Mass Communication became the latest in the array of educational institutions which curbed the right to dissent and was slowly being saffronised. The premier media institute suspended a student for writing an aricle criticising institution’s decision to sack a faculty and “provoking students” to create unrest in[Read More…]
Here is how you can support ‘free speech’ in India
With billboards being vandalised, posters being ripped off and stones being pelted at every second movie, book, opinion, tweet and statement, the very concept of free speech is being threatened in our country. Even though the article 19 (1)(a) under the constitution of India gives us the freedom of speech,[Read More…]