Tag: Dissent

Dalit scholar’s suspension for participating in protest, police detentions, and a court-backed curb on campus activism signal deepening threats to academic freedom and democratic expression in Indian universities

Amid violent threats, legal crackdowns, and silencing of dissent, Maharashtra’s election becomes a crucial moment for safeguarding civil liberties

As ‘the social media giant states that they are complying with the orders of government, what are the legal consequences it would face if it does not?

These are critical times in India’s history: in fact,...

In this thought-provoking essay, the theatre director producer of 45 years explores multiple worlds, political, artistic and personal

Over a 100 Indian and diasporic writers wrote, or gave statements about the suppression of dissent (among other things) in India at 75 

Justice (retd.) Deepak Gupta, in a panel discussion opined that India cannot progress if dissent is stifled

As the issue of Freedom of Speech becomes a growing concern in the country, Sabrang India lists some cases where people were booked for speaking against the Modi-Shah-Yogi trio.

A statement issued by 99 former bureaucrats and policemen, the Constitutional Conduct Group, decries the assault on the freedom of expression and the right to dissent and calls on Indians to unite in protest

AB Vajpayee had raised questions as a Rajya Sabha MP during the 1962 war