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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

On World Press Freedom Day 2026, the Free Speech Collective (FSC) assembles a powerful, deeply layered account of repression, incarceration, and systemic silencing—centring the stories of jailed journalists Rupesh Kumar Singh and Irfan Mehraj to expose the widening fault lines in India’s democratic promise

Karnataka: Why has the Hindu Jagarana Vedike reactivated its aggression now?

Mob assaulted and manhandled a Muslim journalist, another disrupted a church service

Kannur University likely to drop works of Savarkar, Golwalkar from syllabus

This has been recommended by a two-member committee syllabus review appointed by the university, following massive public uproar

Moulvi Muhammad Baqir: The journalist who made the pen his sword

Baqir played a crucial role in encouraging people to come together for the 1857 Rebellion against the British and was martyred

SCHOOL survey indicates widening educational gap between SC/ST and other children

The report highlights how socio-economic discrimination has seeped into India’s educational system

Politics in education or politics of education?

New courses in universities, schools stressing on ‘patriotism’ or adding works of right wing ideologies narrow spaces for diversity and questioning

Remembering the independence activist, Jatindra Nath Das

He died in 1929 at the age of 25, after a 63-day fast for protecting political prisoners from injustice

Why did Indian Express apologise for the epic Adityanath advertorial goof up?

Chief Minister Adityanath seemed ‘unaware’ of the goof up, or was too busy making ‘abba jaan’ comments in Kushinagar

A tribute to Danish Siddiqui (May 19, 1983 – July 16, 2021) 

India’s leading photojournalists share iconic photographs of their careers, in a tribute to their slain colleague, and as a salute to photojournalism

What is behind the synchronised Income Tax “survey” at NewsClick, Newslaundry? 

The news portals issue statements detailing noon-midnight IT ‘survey’ conducted under Section 133A of the Income Tax Act

450+ Citizens from all walks of life stand by Javed Akhtar, Naseeruddin Shah

Over 150 citizens from all walks of life have condemned outright the hounding of intellectuals, poets and actors

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Caged Voices, Silenced Truths: FSC’s expansive indictment of India’s press freedom crisis

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