Theme 2012: New Voices: Media Freedom Helping to Transform Societies World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in December 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO’s General Conference. Since then, 3 May, the anniversary of the Declaration of… Continue Reading →
Author(s): Latha Jishnu, Jyotika Sood, Down to Earth Issue: May 15, 2012 Biometric-based unique identity or Aadhaar is leading to huge problems for people working for the rural employment guarantee scheme and for others receiving welfare benefits. Not only have enrolments been done… Continue Reading →
Arindam Sen Exactly as we had forewarned before the 2011 assembly elections, the new government in West Bengal has started baring its fangs. In sync with a series of backtrackings and betrayals on electoral promises and an utterly inhuman, irresponsible… Continue Reading →
Private sector censors If business decides what’s ‘good’ and ‘bad’ speech, it can lead to multiple interpretations and arbitrary decisions Here, There, Everywhere | Salil Tripathi, Livemint.com In Milan Kundera’s 1967 Czech novel, Žert (The Joke), Ludvik Jahn sends a postcard to… Continue Reading →
Raised voices against Internet censorship STAFF REPORTER, The Hindu The HinduStudents and IT professionals performing a skit against the ‘clampdown on freedom of speech’ online. Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy It’s a regular day at the Parappana Agrahara prison in Bangalore…. Continue Reading →
A Song that will be sung Anand Patwardhan’s paean to Dalits, that took 14 years to compose, probes even as it praises, says Saroj Giri in Tehelka Tragic remains People killed in the police firing in Ramabai Colony in 1997 THERE IS an entrenched tendency… Continue Reading →
At the Internet Democracy Project, we believe that the Internet is changing democracy just as irrevocably as it is changing dictatorships. But if that is the case, what does that mean for our struggles and visions for social change in… Continue Reading →
Saibal Sen & Priyanka DasguptaSaibal Sen & Priyanka Dasgupta, TNN | Apr 20, 2012, KOLKATA: The Bengal governmentcontinues to play moral guardian with an obsolete tool of the Seventies, guiding people on what posters to see and what they… Continue Reading →
On 6 April, 2012, Poovulagin Nanbargal and Campaign for Justice and Peace-TN organised a panel discussion titled “The Use and Abuse of Sedition and Other Laws to Stifle Democratic Dissent“Here’re short interviews with the panelists. The film was shot and… Continue Reading →
‘FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION UNDER ATTACK’ Sanal Edamaruku, well known rationalist, under threat of arrest for exposing the “miracle” On 10th March, Sanal Edamaruku, President of the Rationalist International, flew to Mumbai. The TV channel , TV-9 had invited him to investigate… Continue Reading →
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