How academics are sabotaging their right to freedom of expression

Universities need to protect people with different ideas.

Steven Greer, The Conversation

· Oct 21, 2019 · 11:30 pm

Anurag Kashyap quits Twitter after his parents and daughter receive threats

The filmmaker, a vocal critic of the Narendra Modi government, said he would not speak at all if he was not allowed to speak his mind without fear.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 11, 2019 · 11:22 am

Anil Ambani’s defamation blitz: 28 cases filed by Reliance Group in Ahmedabad courts this year

Twenty cases have been filed against journalists and media organisations. Not all of them are linked to Rafale.

Vijayta Lalwani

· Nov 25, 2018 · 09:00 am

Defence analyst arrested by Odisha Police days after he jokes about Konark temple

Abhijit Iyer Mitra was later granted bail and told to join the investigation in Bhubaneswar by September 28.

Scroll Staff

· Sep 20, 2018 · 03:24 pm

‘Is this a democracy?’: Kanpur traders ask why they were booked for posters comparing Modi with Kim

Hurt by demonetisation, businessmen said that the prime minister was destroying the economy.

Abhishek Dey

· Oct 15, 2017 · 08:01 pm

‘My gurus demand I make no calculations about what is acceptable and what is offensive when I write'

Jerry Pinto’s acceptance speech, read out in absentia, of the Sahitya Akademi award for Best Book in English.

Jerry Pinto

· Mar 19, 2017 · 07:30 am

Full text: Universities must be the bastions of free speech, says President Pranab Mukherjee

Educational institutions must be 'the arena where diverse and conflicting schools of thought contend', president says at Nalanda University convocation.

Pranab Mukherjee

· Aug 28, 2016 · 12:21 pm

At what point can free speech cross over to seditious territory – and who decides?

Legal expert Lawrence Liang argues that courts need to make it more difficult for those claiming hurt sentiments or threats to the State to harass the accused.

Indian Cultural Forum

· Jun 17, 2016 · 06:30 am

With a speech every 45.6 hours, has Modi exhausted his talk-time?

While the prime minister’s supporters may say this is a testament to his inexhaustible energy, his detractors feel he runs the risk of sounding repetitive.

Ajaz Ashraf

· May 14, 2016 · 09:00 am

Full text: 139 academics condemn ‘vicious media campaign’ against JNU professor Nivedita Menon

The signatories criticised news channels for selectively showing clips of her recent public lecture accompanied by inflammatory messages, which they said directly incites violence.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 15, 2016 · 08:18 pm

In the online maelstrom of opinion, can we find something positive and productive?

"The division between our online and offline existences has an easy porosity, and what insinuates itself into our lives is the white noise of opinion,' observes the award-winning writer.

Mahesh Rao

· Dec 07, 2015 · 03:30 pm

Discuss intolerance with Modi, British PM Cameron is urged by Rushdie, McEwan and 100 other writers

Without protections for free speech, 'a democratic, peaceful society is not possible', the writers say.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 12, 2015 · 08:30 am