courtesy Bhavin patel, Twitter CONTROVERSY Delhi-based bibliophiles send a legal notice to Penguin, charging it with ” extra judicial killing of books and authors”, demanding that it either recommence publication of The Hindus or surrender its copyright to the Indian public. Following… Continue Reading →
Dear Director of the Kala Ghoda Festival, Although it is heart warming that you cancelled the show ALI J with much concern for our “security and the best interest of the festival”, we wonder whether it is in the best… Continue Reading →
Clogging The Ink The Modi wave is quietly battering free expression ANURADHA RAMAN When Thiru Veerapandian expressed the sound idea that people must think before they voted for the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, he would not have… Continue Reading →
A report from The Free Speech Hub of the Hoot Highlights Deaths : eight deaths in 2013 The number of journalists killed has risen in the last three years. From three in 2011 and five… Continue Reading →
Last week some friends found this link on the internet in a newspaper no less important that The Economic Times. Click there and the article was removed? Guess why ? https://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=dnFe9EA_4G8U1eM&hl=en&ned=in Because here is what it said….Read on… Is Modi… Continue Reading →
Anurag Batra on Sun, 11/10/2013 – 17:32 An insecure and anxious government always displays characteristics of becoming authoritarian, even in a democracy. When its power is being challenged and its fallacies being brought to light, such a government can be defensive and… Continue Reading →
* GOANEWS DESK, PANAJI | 01 October 2013 14:04 IST A fresh controversy sparked on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti today as Ravindra Bhavan of Margao, the state government institution, announcing a show tomorrow of controversial play ‘Mee Nathuram… Continue Reading →
INDIA’S OPEN SECRETS Effects on sovereignty and democracy By S.G.Vombatkere** Junior strategic partner American spying challenges comprise three categories, namely, friends, enemies and problems. The top two challenges are Brazil and Egypt. That India is No.3 challenge to U.S… Continue Reading →
The Karnataka Police, bowing to pressure from right-wing Hindutva organisations, arrested theatre person, artist and writer Yogesh Master from his residence on 29 August for allegedly controversial remarks against Hindu diety Ganapati in his novel ‘Dhundi’. The police booked the… Continue Reading →
PRERNA BAKSHI, The Hindu Against the recent backdrop of the gang rape incident in Delhi, rapper Honey Singh found himself surrounded by a number of protesting activists and NGOs. Some of his songs have come under the scanner and… Continue Reading →
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