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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

Time flies, memories fade, nightmares become real

45 years of the emergency 25 June 2020

CJP approaches NBSA against Zee Media’s Vaccine Jihad show

A vaccine wastage incident in Ecuador, was falsely reported to have taken place in Uttar Pradesh, pinning the blame on a Muslim nurse

From newsrooms to courtrooms

When journalists have to face the court, it makes for different news, but recently, it is the courts that seem to have protected the pen

Kashi ka Kabir

Reinterpreting a poet’s life and his times

Maulvi and a feminist

First published on: October 2009Though religion per se was...

2021: A half-yearly round up of CJP’s Hate Hatao Project

CJP continues to fight hate and stand in solidarity with the most marginalised sections of society

Is the new amendment to Gujarat’s education law violating minority rights?

The state government passed a bill in March empowering the education Board to appoint teachers in minority-run schools and it stands to violate minority rights ensured under the Constitution as upheld by the courts over the years

The Supremacy Myth

The bogus arguments and "proofs" on the basis of which the better half of God’s finest creation is kept under subjugation and servility is both shameful and sinful

Quran and Liberation

The Quran teaches us a radically egalitarian view of the equal worth and dignity of women that remains unparalleled, even in modern thought

Will Twitter fly away from India soon?

Three major legal actions have been initiated in various forms against Twitter India already

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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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