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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

More Indian expats in UAE face action over Islamophobic social media posts

The UAE laws criminalise any acts that trigger religious hatred and/or insult religion through any form of expression, which covers speech and the written word, books, pamphlets or online media.

Arnab Goswami in hot water again: Widow of interior designer seeks justice in 2018 suicide abetment case

Anvay Naik and his mother had allegedly committed suicide due to non-payment of professional charges by Arnab Goswami for designing his TV news studio in Mumbai

Nationalism is a cruel epidemic of evil that is sweeping over the human world of the present age: Rabindranath Tagore

Revisiting the idea of 'nationalism' through Tagore's words on his birth anniversary

Maha gov’t moves SC accusing Arnab Goswami of ‘browbeating’ police

Meanwhile, Goswami seeks quashing of new FIR in connection with his channel's reportage of the Bandra migrant crisis

A Pulitzer for Kashmir

AP photographers Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand awarded journalism’s most coveted prize

SC does not interfere with Bombay HC interim order allowing burials of Covid-19 victims in city

The Court refused to entertain the matter and asked the HC to decide the case within 2 weeks

Whither Freedom of Press in India?

It is no easy job being a journalist in India today. If one has to stand up for truth and justice one will have to pay the price.

By incarcerating scholars, Modi government contradicts values of Hinduism

On the World Press Freedom Day, India has slipped on the global press freedom index.

Magazine covering alternative politics holds Zoom rally in solidarity with Kashmiri journalists

Masrat Zahra and Gowhar Geelani were among three journalists recently booked for “unlawful activities” by the Cyber Police of J&K

Lockdown special from JNU: A webinar on ‘Leadership lessons through Ramayana’

It's time for all things holy, at the once holistic JNU, but strictly for faculty, staff and students, webinar is a collaboration with The Ramayana School.

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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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