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Free Speech in India 2025: What the Free Speech Collective report reveals about a year of silencing

Based on data documenting 14,875 violations, the Free Speech Collective’s latest report traces how killings, arrests, mass censorship, corporate pressure and regulatory overreach combined to shrink India’s public sphere in 2025

Subversive Sangh

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Partisan police

That the Indian police have lost their credibility with...

Gender and community

The genocide in Gujarat, as well as the earlier...

India Modi-fied

Gujarat offers us clear glimpses of a Hindu fascist...

Tolerant tradition

The Hindu tradition of toleration is showing signs of...

Law and order: Who cares?

District magistrates and superintendents of police must be punished...

Protectors turn predators

If state authorities wantonly let violent mobs target innocents,...

Rights of ‘majorities’?

The Vajpayee-led government’s argument before the Supreme Court undermines...

Reforms now!

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Bred on hatred, ready for the Bomb

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