Will ‘apologists’ take a bullet for the nation?

A case for truth: Media oppression is a shifting landscape | Sevanti Ninan, Mainstream Weekly

Mainstream Weekly 17 July 2020 by Sevanti Ninan For some years now, the growing challenge to journalism has come from the increasing use of predictable laws. These are the Sections relating to sedition and criminal defamation in the Indian Penal Code and, until it was struck down in 2015, Section 66A of the Information and […]

Freedom of speech cry by ex-officers, The Telegraph

The Telegraph 08 July 2020 Former civil servants say the coronavirus pandemic has been used as an excuse for curbing freedom of speech across states Nearly a hundred former civil servants — all of who have retired from top positions in the bureaucracy — have picked up cudgels for the citizens’ right to freedom of […]

Assam NRC: Rights body says over one lakh tribals excluded, The New Indian Express

The New Indian Express02 September 2019 Human rights body ‘Rights and Risks Analysis Group’ said about 25 per cent of about 36,000 Reangs in Hailakandi district were excluded from the NRC. GUWAHATI: Amidst the assertions by political parties and organisations that the National Register of Citizens (NRC), the final list of which was published on Saturday, […]