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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

Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate

Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses

Journalists for Afghanistan: A fundraiser for colleagues targeted by Taliban

The Network of Women in Media has launched a fundraiser from sales of stunning photographs taken by well known photojournalists

Why ‘Progressive’ Muslims are wrong in Condemning Naseeruddin Shah’s Anti-Taliban Video

Muslim organizations’ refusal to condemn the Taliban is downright worrying but what is perhaps more worrisome is the refusal of the progressive Muslims to see it clearly.

Supreme Court grants The Wire interim protection in two different cases in UP

Apex court says it can't create separate avenue for journalists to come directly to it to quash FIRs

Sikkim: Indefinite hunger strike continues as ad-hoc teachers demand service extension

Sick of waiting for the re-interview process to complete, Sikkim’s ad-hoc teachers have asked for an extension of their contract if not immediate interviews

Gyan Vapi case: Varanasi court to hear petition to hold prayers in Shringar Gauri temple

Five Hindu women had moved court saying, prayers that were held on the premises located on the western side till 1998, need to be restarted

HW: Video of minor Hindu boy being lynched, shared as case of ‘Love Jihad’

The case was of a 16 year old Hindu boy who was allegedly eloping with a 12 year old Hindu girl

Recycle, reuse and issue non-apologies when caught: Fake news toolkit?

Leading Indian news channels have been called out for peddling fake news about Afghanistan for days now

Vigil held in memory of Gauri Lankesh in Canada  

Members of the South Asian community came together to remember the slain Indian journalist at Surrey’s Holland Park on Sunday, September 5

Our Gauri: A Tribute to Gauri Lankesh

First Published on: 27 Jan 2018Fearless journalist Gauri Lankesh was...

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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

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As lynchings “normalise” in ‘New India, a Bihar imam is ‘thrashed, pushed’ from train to die in Bareilly

While the incident reportedly took place on April 26, it took sectional media and social media coverage for the Bareilly police to finally admit that the beating to death of Maulana Tausif Raza Manzari was a targeted attack, not an accident on May 1; his wife provided details of a call to her from the dead cleric where he narrated he was under attack