JANUARY 2, 2013, hoot.org tags: censorship, free speech, Section 66A Information Technology Act, the hoot by Lawrence Liang Fettering the Fourth Estate: Free Speech in 2012 A report of the Free Speech Hub of the Hoot.org The year 2012 ended with a Kannada TV reporter,… Continue Reading →
From The Indian Express: The Lok Sabha has quietly amended the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, a dangerous tool in the hands of any government When two young women were arrested for a Facebook post questioning the shutdown in Mumbai for Bal… Continue Reading →
Edited by Amit Chaturvedi | Updated: December 11, 2012 , NDTV Nagpur: Farukh Dhada, father of Shaheen Dhada, the girl who was arrested last month by over her Facebook post, has spoken out against what he says is Gujarat Chief Minister… Continue Reading →
November 20, 2012 , rediff.com ‘I write this piece,’ says Javed Iqbal, ‘not just to come to terms with my childhood, but to speak about those who were once Shiv Sena [ Images ] loyalists, whose dreams did not die with… Continue Reading →
15 December 2012, Open Magazine In Remembrance of Horrors Past The riots of 1992-93 were so brutal, it seemed Mumbai would never recover. Yet, despite no signs of justice, victims of the violence are beginning to move on BY Jyoti… Continue Reading →
By Dr Anand Teltumbde 05 December, 2012 Countercurrents.org Ramdas Athawale, who had left all the dealers of Dalit interests in Maharashtra far behind when he managed to sublimate himself straight from a dingy room in the Siddharth Vihar in Wadala… Continue Reading →
Hari Masjid, Wadala, Mumbai, was the scene of a brutal police attack on January 10, 1993. Though Farooq Mhapkar was one of the casualties of indiscriminate police firing, he was charged as a rioter. Farooq versus The State is the… Continue Reading →
Nov 30, 2012 , http://www.thedailybeast.com Hated and mocked in much of the world, the Nazi leader has developed a strange following among schoolchildren and readers of Mein Kampf in India. Dilip D’Souza on how political leader Bal Thackeray influenced Indians to admire Hitler… Continue Reading →
Manoj Mitta | November 2012, Times Crest The higher the penalty, the greater the rigor that the courts are expected to display in arriving at the decision. It is however hard to apply this principle, ironically enough, to the highest… Continue Reading →
By Ranjana Diggikar, TNN | Dec 1, 2012, MORE Prevention of Child Marriage Act|Mukundwadi police station|Cidco MIDC police|Child Welfare Committee An 11-year-old girl from a small village in Aurangabad district walked into the Mukundwadi police station a couple of days… Continue Reading →
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