Curbing Dissent
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Armed with ‘disinformation’ law, Turkey cracks down on dissent with days to go for landmark election
President Tayyip Erdogan faces his toughest political challenge in the May 14 elections that could end his 20-year rule.
Nazih Osseiran, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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India’s ‘thought-free’ universities and the danger of the ripples from a single dissenting pebble
Students’ minds are thinking minds. But the government wants them to be conditioned by hyper-nationalism and believe that different voices are a disturbance.
Apoorvanand
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Assam man arrested for dressing as Hindu deity Shiva in street play on price rise
The actor, Birinchi Bora, was released on Sunday as all the charges against him were bailable.
Scroll Staff
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New Parliament building seeks to legitimise Hindutva victory over India’s multicultural past
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Modi’s new parliament could see Hindi belt gain, South lose power at the Centre
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‘City of Dreams’ season 3 review: Political drama is running out of ways to deliver the shocks
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HS Prannoy: Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei once in-a-generation athletes, cherished playing against them
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On a propaganda tour in India, the first Black Ivy League professor found complexities and paradoxes
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Supreme Court refuses to ban Kancha Ilaiah’s new book on the Arya-Vyasa community
The bench said that the author’s fundamental right of freedom of speech and expression must not be curbed.
Scroll Staff
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Gauri Lankesh murder: Left parties demand ban on outfits like the Sanatan Sanstha
The CPI(M) said the journalist’s murder fit into a pattern of ending those who speak up against the BJP and RSS, referring to Pansare and Dabholkar’s killings.
Scroll Staff
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My way is the highway: Pinarayi Vijayan just won't brook protests against ‘development work'
Kerala's chief minister is all for dissent – unless it is against him.
TA Ameerudheen
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Eco India, Episode 225: How can our resource-scarce planet benefit from nature based solutions?
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Watch: Tsuni the elephant calf loves a bubble bath
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Watch: Virat Kohli surprises Anushka Sharma by responding to her dialogue from ‘Band Baaja Baaraat’
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Watch: Time-lapse footage of massive storm rolling in over Delhi-NCR
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Video: Watch this ‘People x Nainowale Ne’ mashup with a classical twist by two sisters
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The greatest joke in Bangladesh consists of two words: Human rights.
A crackdown on a peaceful protest against a power plant on January 26 is just the latest example of law enforcers doing the government's bidding.
Ikhtisad Ahmed
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Full text: Greenpeace India employees offer to volunteer without pay for a month to help NGO survive
More than 200 employees of the NGO have written a letter to the Greenpeace executive director, offering their services free of cost in June.
Scroll Staff