Rahul Gandhi comes out against demands to censor new Netflix series ‘Sacred Games’

The views of a character on a fictional web series can never change the fact that my father lived and died in the service of India, the Congress president said.

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· Jul 14, 2018 · 08:46 pm

The Indian Right has adopted an American strategy to demonise the Left. But it’s more dangerous

India’s free speech laws are far weaker than those in the USA, allowing legitimisation of state excesses in the name of national security.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jul 10, 2018 · 07:30 am

‘Winking is blasphemous in Islam,’ say new petitions in Supreme Court against Priya Varrier film

The petitioners want the song featuring the wink removed from the movie.

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· Apr 09, 2018 · 01:20 pm

Opinion: It isn’t surprising that guidelines on fake news were scrapped – they were bad in law

The new rules aimed to suspend the accreditation of journalists against whom complaints of fake news had been registered.

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Apr 03, 2018 · 03:16 pm

Malaysia: Artist jailed for a month for making a caricature of Prime Minister Najib Razak

Fahmi Reza was also fined 30,000 ringgits.

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· Feb 20, 2018 · 10:09 pm

Actor Priya Varrier moves Supreme Court, wants the case against her viral song quashed

She said in her plea that the case violated her freedom of speech and expression.

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· Feb 19, 2018 · 05:22 pm

‘Victory of justice and freedom of expression’: Twitter hails Supreme Court’s ‘Padmaavat’ ruling

The Apex Court on Thursday stayed notifications by four states stopping the release of the movie on January 25.

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· Jan 18, 2018 · 06:16 pm

Jammu and Kashmir government bars employees from criticising its policies on social media

The order also prohibited them from sharing any grievance about their workplace.

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· Dec 27, 2017 · 07:51 am

Controversial article by former EPW editor on Adani Group stays on The Wire (but with cuts)

Rejecting the company’s plea in November, the civil court had given it a month to file an appeal in the High Court, which it did not.

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· Dec 18, 2017 · 07:28 pm

India cutting a sorry figure with threats issued to artists, says Bombay High Court

The bench asked why the investigation agencies were not able to arrest the main accused in the murder cases of Narendra Dabholkar and Govind Pansare.

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· Dec 07, 2017 · 07:37 pm

We are living in the Dark Ages, says ‘S Durga’ actor Kannan Nair

‘Not since the Emergency has freedom of expression been denied in this manner.’

Arti Das

· Nov 24, 2017 · 05:38 pm

‘Nude’ director Ravi Jadhav on being dropped from IFFI: ‘I am really disappointed’

The Marathi movie ‘Nude’ and the Malayalam film ‘S Durga’ were thrown out of the government-run festival without informing the selection committee.

Nandini Ramnath

· Nov 11, 2017 · 04:15 pm