Will The ‘Azaadi League’ Take A Bullet For The Nation?

Indian Journalists Are Being Targeted for Questioning Governments’ Handling of the Pandemic, Vice

Vice 19 June 2020 The country’s media persons are facing criminal charges and intimidation for exposing lack of transparency around the crisis. On June 13, a journalist was charged with various offences by the police of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) for a story filed from within Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary […]

Ramachandra Guha: Why Ram Mohun Roy’s colonial-era petition for press freedom is still relevant, Scroll

Scroll 21 June 2020 The Indian press is less free, more vulnerable to state intimidation than at any time since the Emergency. In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government […]

Muslims Aren’t so Dumb to be Misled by Intellectuals, The Kashmir Monitor

The Kashmir Monitor 17 September 2020 By Ajaz Ashraf The Muslim community has been infantilised by the Delhi Police in the controversial chargesheet that it recently filed in the February riot cases. The charge sheet will make a reader believe that Muslims live in a cocoon, completely disconnected from debates raging in the country. Their […]