Fourth Estate intact in India: Envoy Ruchira Kamboj at United Nations
This sweeping assertion comes in the same week that journalist Ravish Kumar left NDTV.
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Fascism | India | Journalism | Print Edition
Press Statements on Delhi Police Raids on the Editors of The Wire
Two Press Statements, condemning the raids on the residences and office of senior editors of the news portal, The Wire, in New Delhi and Mumbai on 31st October and 1st November, 2022 and manhandling of the lawyer, Shadan Farasat and other staff members of The Wire.
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‘Recent Income Tax Raids Are an Attack on All Citizens of India’
Concerned citizens have come together to release a statement in solidarity with nonprofits in India that have recently been raided by the Income Tax Department.
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India’s Media at 75: Shackled by Profit, Politically Imprisoned
“For three of my four decades as a journalist, I argued that the Indian media are politically free but imprisoned by profit. Today I’d say they are still shackled by profit, but are increasingly politically imprisoned as well.”
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The Making of the Modern Public Intellectual
Public intellectuals should be respected because they speak out against injustice wherever it occurs.
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Fascism | Human Rights | Journalism | judiciary | Online Blog | Securalism
MoEF&CC Must Stop Destroying India’s Progressive Environment, Forest And Biodiversity Protection Jurisprudence
Several top environmental experts have opposed the proposals by the Govt of India, to amend environment, forest and biodiversity protection laws, as also laws regulating pollution control, under the “influence and financing by foreign governments and international financial institutions”.
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How the Modi Government Has Weaponised the ED to Go After India’s Opposition
It is indisputable that the Modi government has turbocharged the use of the money laundering law. In the decade between 2004-’14, the ED carried out 112 searches in the course of investigating money laundering cases. In the next eight years, this number shot up by 26 times to 2,974 searches.
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The Modi Government’s Escalating Offensive Against Freedom of the Press
India’s democracy is dying in bright daylight because the media is under siege.
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Media in India: Shackled and Spied on
On World Press Freedom Day, an examination of irksome new regulations being enforced on the Indian media, and the challenges and opportunities arising especially in the digital domain.
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Increasing Tendency of Police to Attack Journalists Is Very Disturbing: Editors Guild of India; Also – Statement by Press Club of India
On April 2, the police in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh had arrested, stripped and humiliated a local journalist and some members of the civil society, in retaliation to their reporting on BJP MLA and his son; “Arrest Communal Hooligans; Release Jailed Scribes,” Says Press Club of India.
