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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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It implies that truth is whatever we can make it to mean

Gauri Lankesh honoured in Canada

The City of Burnaby proclaims September 5 as Gauri Lankesh Day

Censorship in learning tarnishes India’s international image: DTF member Dhusiya

AC, DTF and concerned experts heavily criticise the Oversight Committee’s call to remove three significant Dalit women writers from the English literature syllabus.

Indian Muslims and the Allure of Sharia

The Failure to Condemn the Taliban Can Only Mean That the Dream of Establishing Islamic State and Implementing Sharia Is Widely Shared By Indian Muslims

Hate Watch: Muslim bangle seller thrashed, wares looted in Indore

Video showing men mercilessly beating him and warning him to never enter any Hindu locality again, goes viral

Gauri Lankesh was a martyr to the cause of secular ideas

Celebrated journalists came together at an event to honour the life and work of Lankesh, and to discuss the current era of surveillance

Oppressed but not beaten: Afghani accounts on social media

Voices of defiance circulate on social media, highlighting the need for international support against the oppressive regime.

Journalists are targeted by all hardliner regimes, this time in Afghanistan

International media groups and organisations are asking governments to come together and make an “Emergency Plan for Afghan Journalism”

Delhi: Women’s group calls upon media to cover the ire of Nangal villagers

As on-ground protests continue in wake of the Delhi minor girl’s gang rape, media attention has shifted to legal proceedings.

Taliban 2.0: Old laws in newer package?

Better PR skills cannot hide the chaos that continues at Kabul airport, or the firing at Jalalabad where two people were killed and a dozen injured

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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

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