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Silent Freedom of speech and Expression:: ******Heavily Conditioned Applied***** | brainsickthoughts

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Violence against women: The horror of Rogue mindset!!!! | brainsickthoughts

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Indian Americans Protest Against Wharton's Modi Slight

About 200 protesters from a group called Americans for Free Speech marched in protest of the Wharton India Economic Forum Mar. 23 near the Penn Museum.

Freedom of speech under fire today: Bhatt | CanIndia NEWS

Veteran filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt said he feels the Indian film industry is facing hard times in portraying ideologies through art forms with complete freedom.

Savita Bhabhi animation film is a fight for freedom of speech: Puneet - Times Of India

There were many porn lovers, who felt deprived when 'Savita Bhabhi' - the adult comic strips were banned in India. But, its creator Puneet Agrawal, who uses the pseudonym of Deshmukh, is now ready

Drop blasphemy charges against Sanal Edamaruku | Rationalist Association

One year after blasphemy complaints were filed against him, Indian rationalist Sanal Edamaruku remains at risk of imprisonment. We now call on the Indian Prime Minister to intervene in his case

Free speech under threat from politics : Sandipan Deb, News - India Today

The last week has been marked by several controversies involving freedom of speech. The Supreme Court has just issued a stay on the arrest order against one of India most respected sociologists Ashis Nandy for certain comments he made in the Jaipur...

FICCI FRAMES Day 2: Kamal Haasan On Freedom Of Speech Businessofcinema.com

Day 2 of FICCI Frames had an interesting discussion on whether we were oppressing creative expression with Bollywood personalities Mahesh Bhatt, Kamal Haasan and Rahul Bose.

Free Speech Still Being Questioned: Star India CEO

Free Speech Still Being Questioned: Star India CEO - Mumbai: Listing challenges faced by the media industry, Star India CEO Uday Shankar said freedom of speech was...

On a lawful note - Times Of India

The recently concluded National Moot Court Competition at the Manikchand Pahade Law College witnessed loads of participation and talent. Law students from colleges across India presented

Democratic India's shrinking freedoms

For more than sixty five years we have been a democracy and we are even called the largest democracy in the world. Some call our democracy vibrant and some others brand it “raucous”.

The artifice of free speech - www.indianweekender.co.nz

The impression that freedom of speech and expression in India is legally slipping from the grasp of common Indians and celebrities is fast gaining academic and journalistic credence Are recent instances really enough to reach this simple conclusion

Business Line : Opinion : Freedom of expression gagged

Freedom of expression in India is under threat. This year we have the Tamil Nadu government’s ban on Vishwaroopam, the Ashis Nandy FIR, the smothering of Kashmir’s first all girls rock band’s music, and the removal of semi-nude paintings of...

'Americans for Free Speech' group protests against Wharton - Oneindia News

'Americans for Free Speech' group protested against cancellation of Narendra Modi's keynote address at Wharton.

Petition | Government of Tamil Nadu and India: Lift the ban on vishwaroopam. Allow free expression for artists | Change.org

This petition is important because freedom of expression is a constitutionally guaranteed right and by not allowing vishwaroopam to release, the...

Narendra Modi's keynote address at Wharton India Economic Forum cancelled - World - IBNLive

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address at the prestigious Wharton India Economic Forum was cancelled on Sunday under pressure from multiple stakeholders. Modi was invited to deliver the address at the forum, which would be held in...

Free Speech and Bangladesh’s Growing Climate of Fear | The Platform

The Platform / The controversial conviction of a popular speaker and its bloody aftermath draws ever more attention to the clampdown on voices of dissent in Bangladesh

Bengali film critical of Mamata Banerjee blocked by censor board - The Times of India

The film was denied release based on recommendations by a revising committee of the censor board, whose members are appointed by the state government.

Future of freedom is at stake | GulfNews.com

However one wants to label India s democratic credentials there are major aberrations from the traditions and practices followed in the West

India Bans Kamal Haasan’s Movie ‘Vishwaroopam’ - Newsweek and The Daily Beast

India is earning a reputation for overzealous film censorship.

Section 66A and free speech in India: The debate continues « The Morning Media Project

Free Speech Arithmetic: A Shell Game for Liberals — India Resists

Shubh Mathur | Any number can play. Numbers vary according to the current moves. Players include but are not limited to: the state, the oppressed community/nationality, the dominant society, mainstream media, liberals, misfits.

India Goes Backwards on Human Rights - NYTimes.com

Sexual violence against women and crackdowns on freedom of expression cited as problems by Human Rights Watch.

Kashmir's first all-female rock group disband following threats | World news | guardian.co.uk

Pragaash quit three months after forming, pointing to fatwa from cleric and local opinion in India's only majority Muslim state

Editors agree with Markandey Katju, slam govt ‘blackmail’ - Times Of India

NEW DELHI: With Markandey Katju making public one of the worst-kept media secrets — how governments block advertising to arm-twist media companies to give favourable coverage — top

‘Vishwaroopam’ and Tamil Nadu’s cinema of politics | India Insight

Tamil Nadu has much to lose -- not just the culture of artistic and political expression that its people built, but the pride that came along with it.

The Last Word: Is India weak in defending freedom of speech?

IBNLive: Watch CNN-IBN show The Last Word: Is India weak in defending freedom of speech? Videos on IBNLive.com

Bangalore moral cops create ruckus at art exhibition - Times Of India

BANGALORE: The invitation to Anirudh Sainath Krishnamani's ongoing art exhibition at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (CKP) sports a prominent statutory warning: 'Mature Content. Viewer Discretion

Rushdie, Indian actor Haasan targeted by Muslim groups | Entertainment | DAWN.COM

Dawn.com Entertainment Rushdie, Indian actor Haasan targeted by Muslim groups AFP | 31st January, 2013 48 (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getEl

Freedom of speech is a big lie in our country: Karan Johar - Hindustan Times

Karan Johar writes exclusively for HT Café in support of Kamal Haasan whose film is mired in controversy. The filmmaker says creative artistes have always been at the receiving end of some people...

Will online freedom of speech decrease even further? - Forbes India - IBNLive

The internet's a brave new world in so many ways-driven by the young invigorating the old. About 150 million Indians are on the web now. Earlier, to express ideas publicly, you had to go through a newspaper, magazine, TV or a radio station before....

Indian state defends film ban amid free speech fears - FRANCE 24

BREAKING NEWS Suicide bomber targets Malian soldiers in Gao, military says A suicide bomber blew himself up near Malian soldiers in the northwestern

From Jaipur to Kolkata to Tamil Nadu, Freedom of Expression Issues Roil India | Asia Society

Global non-profit organization. The leading force in forging closer ties between Asia and the West through arts, education, policy and business outreach.

Freedom of expression must include right to offend: Manish Tewari - Economic Times

Information and broadcasting minister Manish Tewari says the nation needs to accept that free speech includes the right to offend. In an interview to Nidhi Sharma, Tewari speaks about revisiting

India needs to learn to be more tolerant to exercise free speech and expression : Manoj Joshi, News - India Today

Many commentators have seen the controversy over Ashis Nandy and the Dalits, Salman Rushdie and Kolkata and Vishwaroopam ban in Tamil Nadu, as attempts to muzzle India's culture of free speech and expression.

Premier sings province's praises at India speech - Winnipeg Free Press

MANITOBA Premier Greg Selinger has delivered a keynote address to the Energy and Resources Institute... - Local - Winnipeg Free Press.

India: Backsliding on Human Rights | Human Rights Watch

(London) – India’s human rights situation took serious turns for the worse with respect to civil society protections, sexual violence against women, and the longstanding failure to hold public officials accountable for abuses, Human Rights Watch...

The Ashis Nandy Affair: India's Growing Intolerance : The New Yorker

Within moments, Ashis Nandy’s remark about most corrupt Indians being from traditionally oppressed and marginalized lower castes and tribes was tweeted without its context.

Anger okay, but asking for arrest unnecessary: Tharoor on Nandy - India - IBNLive

Are we becoming an intolerant society and is the Indian state defensive freedom of speech weak and equivocal? Those are the two issues Karan Thapar raised with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor in his show Devil's...

Cultural intolerance: Free speech has become an endangered species with some high profile instances in recent weeks | Mail Online

The cycle has become so routine that it is now utterly predictable. An Indian chooses to exercise her constitutional right to free speech and, after the slightest threat from opportunistic malcontents and cultural terrorists, the state fails to...

India's artists struggle to safeguard free speech | Asia | DW.DE | 07.02.2013

A string of bans and fatwas has reignited a debate about the freedom of artistic expression in the world’s largest democracy. Artists are calling on the government to exercise more control over growing fundamentalism.

Free speech in India | Prof Chris Daly's Blog

Here is a view from Suketu Mehta, the author of the wonderful book Maximum City, about Bombay. The takeaway: This year, the world’s largest democracy ranked a miserable 140th out of 179 countries in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom...

India: War on whistleblowers

Over the past five years, some 150 whistleblowers have allegedly been harassed or jailed for exposing corruption. As many as 20 have been killed.

Come on, India! Show us that freedom can outdo tyranny | Timothy Garton Ash

Thursday 31 January 2013 08.00 GMT Come on, India! Show us that freedom can outdo tyranny How can such poverty, corruption and inequality endure in t

India’s Four Mystic Apes – Read nothing, See nothing, Hear nothing, Say nothing! « Mayank Sharma

When I first experienced a speech by Christopher Hitchens (or ‘the Hitch’ to all fellow admirers), I can still remember the mixture of awe, respect and admiration that his utterances effortlessly commanded. I’m sure others who have read any of...

Sedition laws: India’s colonial-era threat to free expression | UNCUT

Section 124 of the Indian Penal Code, under which Trivedi was arrested, is reserved for anyone who “brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the government,” with disaffection...

Free(zing) Speech in a Crisis: The Virtues of a Considered and Constitutional Response | The Free Speech Initiative

Last month, news of rumours of persecution of Indian citizens of Northeastern descent began to be widely reported. By the 21st of August, it appeared that authorities had authorized internet service providers to block a vast number of websites...

India becoming a Tin Pot Little Asian Country | Niti Central

In August 2012, the Bodo-Muslim violence that had been plaguing Assam over the previous three weeks boiled over and went national. Riots erupted in Bombay, Lucknow, Kanpur, and other cities across India.

Arrest of 'toilet' cartoonist triggers free speech debate in India - CNN

An Indian cartoonist sent to jail to await trial for sedition has refused to seek bail until the charges are dropped, his attorney said on Tuesday.Vijay Hiremath told CNN that his client Aseem

Defend Free Speech in India - Avaaz.org

Dear friends across India,Our government threw cartoonist Aseem Trivedi in jail for depicting India's crass corruption -- and while he faces up to three years in prison, the corrupt politicians he was lampooning are walking free. Our freedoms...

The Free Press: War erupts as India permits FDI in multi-brand retail

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Column: How free should we be to speak in India? | Legally India

Freedom of speech is impossible to agree about. While hardly anyone will dispute that freedom of expression is essential for a democratic society and an effective free market, almost no one will be able to agree about exactly where to draw the line.

Indore cartoonist in legal quagmire - Times Of India

NEW DELHI: Aseem Trivedi was released on bail in Mumbai on Wednesday but in a corner of Indore, another cartoonist Harish Yadav appeared in the court for his umpteenth hearing. Last September a case

How free should we be to speak in India? - Livemint

India, with its myriad ethnic and religious groups, has more legal speech restrictions than other democratic nations

A short history of Indian freedom of speech - Livemint

Between 2009 and February 2011, at least 14 people were charged with sedition in India

India likely to ban film on Prophet Muhammad as anti-US protests spread - The Times of India

India is likely to ban on Internet a controversial film deemed offensive to Islam that has sparked anti-US protests, especially in the Middle East.