Freedom of Speech Archives

The bench of Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav observed, "It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that social media is a global platform for the exchange of thoughts, opinions, and ideas

Freedom of speech on social media comes with responsibility: Allahabad HC

PGurus Newsdesk - January 30, 2023 1

The right to freedom of expression comes with its own set of special responsibilities and duties, says Allahabad HC The Allahabad High Court has dismissed...

The constitution bench judgment delivered the verdict on whether restrictions can be imposed on the right to freedom of speech and expression of a public functionary

Law and Order

No additional restrictions against free speech can be imposed: Supreme Court...

PGurus Newsdesk - January 3, 2023 0

Azam Khan’s remarks on a gangrape that made the SC review politicians’ freedom of speech On Tuesday the Supreme Court held that no additional restrictions...

India may well have been a tolerant country for thousands of years, but the facts being what they are today, we need laws that will bring peace to the country today

Opinion

Freedom of speech in India: How far and no farther?

Ganesan Subramanian - July 3, 2022 0

We need to decide between absolute freedom of speech and national amity I’m not a lawyer, and my point is not legal, but an exploration...

Nupur, you have put yourself, and your family, at grave risk for a party that backed away from standing with you

Satire

My New Letter Series – Dear Nupur, You Were Wrong In...

Kumar Sridhar - June 12, 2022 4

Dear Nupur, Going back about 75 years ago, we had a bald frail old man, a masochist some would call him, who went to a...

France (and Macron's) patience has finally run out. In a series of moves, the government is clamping down on radical Islam. Can Europe be rescued? Who is next in the line to act? All this and more from Prof R Vaidyanathan.

Videos

Prof RV had predicted that Europe was getting radicalized – France...

Sahil Mishra - October 30, 2020 1

Liberals have a grip over everything, they have a say in everything, in the name of freedom of speech and intolerance. No sector remains untouched by them

Opinion

Who is running the Country?

Neha Gokani - October 17, 2020 1

India went through de-industrialization during the British Era, which saw a remarkable change in the economy. We lost our traditional economy which was a...

In a span of two years, two judgments were delivered where the inputs were more or less the same yet the judgments that came down were exactly opposite. This lack of consistency and the reasons for this is discussed with former MHA official R V S Mani.

Videos

R V S Mani on the lack of consistency in judgments...

Sahil Mishra - September 22, 2020 1

In a state where the culprits of an infamous Pehlu Khan lynching case went unpunished, an actress Payal Rohatgi has been thrown behind bars for exercising her right to freedom of expression.

Opinion

Liberty Is Penalized, Violence Goes Untouched

Ravi Shanker Kapoor - December 21, 2019 4

George Orwell famously said, “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” In...

Nobody had then explained how an ‘intolerant’ Modi government was tolerating the venom being spewed on it.

Politics

Then it was the bogey of intolerance, now it is the...

Rajesh Singh - December 2, 2019 5

Those who claim that an atmosphere of fear reigns in the Modi government needs to present incontrovertible evidence. An atmosphere of fear exists under the...