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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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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Journalistic Legacy of B.R. Ambedkar, the Editor
The newspapers associated with Ambedkar are repositories of vast information on the history of Dalit political activism, which is why it’s a pity that Ambedkar’s role as a journalist and editor has been largely ignored.
Bhagat Singh: An Unsung Hero of Political Journalism
Bhagat Singh is widely venerated as a radical thinker and political revolutionary. However, he is seldom celebrated as a journalist; an identity that was quite intrinsic to his critical thinking, individuality and revolutionary integrity.
To the CJI, on His Lament that Investigative Journalism Is Vanishing from Indian Media
Alas, the consequences these days for journalists doing such stories can be serious. Even for those doing straight reporting. Siddique Kappan, arrested en route to Hathras to meet the family of the gang-rape victim, has languished in jail for over a year now, unable to get bail.