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Tuesday, November 25, 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

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.