Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
SC was hearing a PIL that demanded a stay on the release of the movie, claiming that it promotes stereotyping, and hurts the dignity and sentiments of Brahmins.
At the closing debate of JLF, Pavan K Varma posed a question that had the crowd in an uproar. ‘Would you want to be in jail without bail,’ he said, referring to Umar Khalid.
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.
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?
'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.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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