Against the backdrop of row over Kamal Haasan's movie 'Vishwaroopam', the centre on Monday set up a committee to review the powers of the Censor Board and suggest measures to enable it to deal with contemporary requirements of certification. ...
08:02 PM, Feb 04, 2013
Are we becoming an intolerant society and is the Indian state defensive freedom of speech weak and equivocal? Those are the two issues Karan Thapar raised with the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor in his show Devil's Advocate. ...
08:46 PM, Feb 03, 2013
The internet's a brave new world in so many ways-driven by the young invigorating the old. About 150 million Indians are on the web now. Earlier, to express ideas publicly, you had to go through a newspaper, magazine, TV or a radio station before. The guardians of media regulated how such ideas were expressed, and published your ideas if you were important enough, if you followed the outlet's editorial line,...
12:10 PM, Jan 11, 2013
New Delhi: British artist of Indian origin, Anish Kapoor, has made his own version of a music video which features the global super hit number 'Gangnam Style' by Korean rap sensation Psy in support of Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei and to promote freedom of speech and expression. Kapoor's version of the Gangnam Style video - Gangnam for Freedom - has the backing of Amnesty. Ai, a world-renowned artist and China's...
11:00 AM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The arrest of two girls in Maharashtra for a Facebook post in which they criticised the closure of Mumbai over Bal Thackeray's death has become a national talking point. The event has outraged people all over the country who are now looking for answers from the state as well as the Central governments. Karan Thapar spoke to Information and Technology Minister Kapil Sibal in CNN-IBN's show 'The Last...
09:54 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Freedom of speech and expression are non negotiable entities and there is a need to find a "golden mean" between this freedom and reasonable restrictions, Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari on Friday said. "I think at that at the end of the day there will be anybody who will say that the freedom of speech or expression is negotiable by any stretch of imagination. That is a...
04:40 AM, Nov 17, 2012
In an exclusive interview to CNN, Ahmadinejad accused the West of abusing the freedom of speech and said a war between Israel and Iran was imminent. ...
08:29 AM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: Now that Kanpur-based cartoonist Aseem Trivedi has been charged with sedition for his cartoons that 'mocked' the country's political class, Parliament and the national emblem, one has to bear in mind that the word "sedition" does not actually figure anywhere in the Indian Constitution. It is an offence against the state as enumerated in the Indian Penal Code which is an 1860 Act ratified by the British to...
12:07 PM, Sep 10, 2012
New Delhi: A person's right to free and fair trial enjoys no primacy over the right to freedom of speech and expression of the media, senior counsel Ram Jethmalani told the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Fundamental rights could only be restricted by a legislation passed by parliament and no guidelines by the apex court could shrink them, Jethmalani told the apex court constitution bench of Chief Justice SH Kapadia, Justice...
04:29 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena members on Wednesday attacked Prashant Bhushan over his comment on Kashmir. ...
11:50 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Tonight at 10 pm, Sagarika Ghose discusses with a panel of experts if freedom of speech is an absolute right.
12:34 PM, Oct 13, 2011
Senior lawyer Prashant Bhushan was attacked by three men for his comments on the removal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act from the Kashmir Valley. ...
10:47 PM, Oct 12, 2011
New Delhi: In the backdrop of the shocking attack on senior lawyer and Team Anna member Prashant Bhushan, the question that arises is whether this is another example of how our society is getting even more intolerant. Many attempts have been made in the past to muzzle free speech. On November 26, 2010, Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq held a press conference in Chandigarh. Within minutes, his presser was intruded...
09:19 PM, Oct 12, 2011
