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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

Why did Twitter censor a basic tweet on Nehru?

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CJP files complaint with Twitter over sexually abusive content against Muslim women

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Punjab-based Youtuber arrested for “racist and anti-India” video

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Whatsapp moves Delhi HC challenging GoI’s traceability clause

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Supersizing victimhood: Hindu Right’s appropriation of Islamophobia, the Jewish Holocaust & Indigenous struggles

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Facebook, Twitter could face legal action in India

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CUK suspends teacher for calling BJP-RSS proto-fascists, student unions rise in protest

Various students and MPs spoke out in solidarity with Assistant Professor Dr. Gilbert Sebastian, dubbing the suspension as a violation of individual rights and freedoms.

Covid-19 claims Jarnail Singh and Rajkumar Keswani

The two journalists had tried to make the Indian state accountable for two different 1984 tragedies

Covid-19: Centre tells social media firms to remove ‘Indian variant’ references

Information technology (IT) ministry has written to all social media companies asking them to “take down” content referring to it

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

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