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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
TopicFree speech

Topic: free speech

In India, it’s save-the-internet time once again

Internet freedom is threatened once again as the Modi government is high on power and the opposition dead. We must speak up before it's too late.

Facebook needs to understand the dangers of handing a megaphone to 2.7 billion people

Mark Zuckerberg's defence of how Facebook is essential to free expression doesn't mean much if it can’t identify or stamp out the worst abuses that come from it.

Is #MeToo casting a shadow on sexual pleasure?

Bodies and sexual pleasures have always been entangled in public, moralising discourses.

Nobody should be arrested basis what they think, says Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo

Speaking at Democracy Wall, the Biju Janata Dal leader said he strongly opposed criminal defamation.

The most undeserving man is on his way to becoming a free speech martyr in India

The Right-wing’s use of draconian anti-free speech laws comes home to roost.

In #MeToo era, this colonial-era law also needs to be junked

By choosing to file a criminal defamation case only against Priya Ramani, M.J. Akbar makes no effort to hide his intentions.

Criticism of government, calling country ‘racist’ not sedition, says outgoing Law Commission

Panel asserts that people should be allowed to point out ‘loopholes’ in govt policy, says ‘national interest’ can’t be used to curb free speech.

A 91-year-old law is making a comeback in India due to lynchings and WhatsApp forwards

How the govt chooses to deal with cases under Section 295A, and other laws curbing free speech, speaks volumes of its own electoral calculations.

Amarinder Singh’s sacrilege bill shows no Indian political party will fight for free speech

There is a strong and widespread resistance to free speech across the political spectrum. As India grapples with its ongoing reactionary wave of politics, Punjab...

India unequipped to deal with cyber crime, says Meghalaya editor Patricia Mary Mukhim

Editor of Shillong Times and Padma Shri award winner Patricia Mary Mukhim says she doesn’t watch the news today because she doesn’t like to see 'shouting matches'.

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BBC scandal: Britain’s elite establishment is rapidly sinking

The impact of all this upheaval is unmooring. We search for the BBC to confirm that Britain still exists and find it missing.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.