Unfreedoming Speech
Dear Mr. Sibal Let me begin with saying that not even my mother had ever made such a comprehensive effort to remove from my sight everything that would offend me. […]
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censorship
The government’s thirst for Internet Control
“While governments can impose curfew to bring ‘offline’ life to a halt in times of emergency, why is it unacceptable to do so ‘online’?” asked @pragmatic_d This obviously refers to
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Eve Teasing
Fighting Eve-teasing: rights and remedy Nature has given women so much power that the Law has given them very little. Samuel Johnson The Term Eve Teasing used to refer to
Media for a new India
We say a lot about what the problem is with media, but we rarely look at what media could be. So…. of course, I write 😀 My main point in
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Police state and illegitimate citizens
We as a society seem to be getting more and more repressed and judgmental, even as the government seems to be making more and more rules to fix problems. Living
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Thoughts on Democracy: The rulers, the opposers and the irrelevants
As a kid, I remember questioning “If someone is really good at making country decisions, but doesn’t have money to advertise, then aren’t we losing him?” That’s profound, but I
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Kids in an adult world
What happens when a child gets attention by doing adult things in an adult world? No, I’m not talking about child porn or human traficking or other established evils. I’m
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Wikileaks: The battlelines find form
What remains to be seen is how this history will be written. The ‘masses’ are getting their dose of scandal and assuming that ‘someone’ will fix things now that they
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We shall mourn the sad demise of journalism
I am utterly disgusted (as usual) with the obsession with rhetoric among Indian newspapers and politicians. NONE of the Indian newspapers quote any actual cables saying anything – only claims
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