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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicFreedom of speech

Topic: Freedom of speech

Nothing suits dictatorship more than a subservient judiciary: Justice HR Khanna

The totalitarian states indeed are never tired of claiming a legal basis for their action and are too eager to make use of conventional legal institutions to further their ends, said Justice HR Khanna in 1980.

Trump celebrates, Obama condemns talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension

While standing alongside British PM Keir Starmer, Trump called Kimmel untalented and denounced him for saying a 'horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.'

Hearing ‘India’s Got Latent’ case, SC says right to dignity greater than right to free speech

New Delhi: In a very significant development, the top court Tuesday said that the right to live with dignity is more important than the...

The world sees Ali Khan Mahmudabad’s arrest first, not all-party delegations

Are we saying that, as a nation, we can’t handle different ideas? That we're too fragile to disagree? If free speech comes with warnings about timing and tone, then is it really free?

Delhi scholars decry Mahmudabad’s arrest. ‘If I had a Muslim name, I’d be arrested too’

'The victims of the Pahalgam massacre are being insulted by the actions taken against Mahmudabad,' said the president of the Federation of Central University Teachers Association.

There’s a gap between what Ali Khan Mahmudabad said and what he’s accused of—basic literacy

Our Foreign Secretary said citizens criticising their own government is the hallmark of any open and functioning democracy. And yet here we are.

Indian taxpayers are paying for a clownish police investigation into Kunal Kamra

The Constitution was not written to prevent uncles and aunties from being shocked or offended.

An Eid kit from BJP & the do’s and don’t’s of free speech

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Can sharing hyperlinks to defamatory material attract liability? HC says yes, but it’s case-specific

Dismissing defamation plea against online publication The Morning Context, HC says there is 'no straight jacket' formula to gauge whether hyperlinks are just references or republication.

Off the stage, into the frying pan & some leaks you can’t fix

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘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.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.