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A protest against the arrest of NewsClick’s founder and editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and Amit Chakravarty, the firm’s human resources head, under a stringent anti-terror law on October 5 in Bengaluru.

Frontline On Air | Assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency

This is not essentially a story about the police running riot. It is a political story.
N. Ram
Journalists staging a protest against the arrest of NewsClick founder-editor Prabir Purkayastha and its administrative officer Amit Chakravarty on terrorism-related charges at the Press Club of India, in New Delhi on October 4.  

Assault on NewsClick marks the lowest point for media freedom in India since Emergency

So, what must be done?
N. Ram
Congress party activists during a protest against the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi from the Lok Sabha, in Kolkata on March 25.

Criminal defamation: A noxious colonial law and its subversive effects

The Macaulay-authored law must be consigned to the dustbin of history.
N. Ram
Delhi Police personnel detain a student after the Students’ Federation of India‘s announcement to screen the BBC documentary, India: The Modi Question, at the Jamia Millia Islamia campus in New Delhi, on January 25.

A new phase of censorship creep in India

A proposal to amend the IT Rules 2021 and the ban on a BBC documentary are part of a larger trend of Internet censorship, growing since 2014. 
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The Meta Platforms Inc. booth at the Hong Kong Fintech Week, on November 1. With Meta under intense international scrutiny on various counts, India, with the world’s largest number of Facebook and Instagram users, has a vital stake in ensuring that the harms done by disinformation and misinformation on these social media platforms are at least minimised.

A new low for media freedom in India

Criminalising journalism for investigative missteps is the thin end of the wedge for the profession.
N. Ram
Arundhati Roy, writer and activist

Scimitars in the Sun: N. Ram interviews Arundhati Roy on a writer’s place in politics

In an exclusive interview, the Booker winner speaks out on big dams, India’s judicial system, and writer’s role in society
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