Defamation
Media
Politics & Political Commentary
NBSA fines Zee News and directs them to broadcast apology for “Afzal Guru gang ka mushaira”
Mr. Gauhar Raza, an eminent scientist and poet, was maligned, defamed and hate engineered against him by the malicious, concocted and motivated news telecast carried by Zee News in March, 2016. Mr. Raza was branded as a part of an “Afzal Premi Gang” for reciting his poems in the ‘Shankar – Shaad Mushaira’. A complaint […]
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National
A prominent builder filed a civil suit against my activist colleague Krish for publishing articles against the builder
A prominent builder filed a civil suit against my activist colleague Krish for publishing articles against the builder. Here’s what Krish says about the suit: Last weekend, I was served notice of a Civil Suit filed against myself and one more person (Mr Vineet Malik) by Ekta Parksville Homes Pvt. Ltd, (“Plaintiff”). In this present […]
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Dear Congress, how is this for defamation?
Political parties in India are quick to heap insult and slow to give respect. When a restaurant in Mumbai made a controversial political comment on their bill, The Youth Congress reached there in large numbers enough for the police to shut down the restaurant (unless they forcibly shut it themselves, as one version goes). The […]
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General
National
Politics & Political Commentary
An open letter to the Chief Justice of India
Dear Sir, I wish to write to you on an issue of vital interest to our country, the freedom of speech on the internet. We have a sizable population on the internet, and it is slated to grow phenomenally within the next decade. I don’t presume to speak about things you know better than I do, our […]
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