A FreeMuse report Alankrita Shrivastava’s film Lipstick Under My Burkha was initially denied release in India for being “lady oriented”, Icelandic artist Borghildur Indriðadóttir had her Facebook friends and photos deleted after she shared a promo of her photo exhibition Demoncrazy featuring topless women, and Afghan playwright and […]
By Geeta Seshu On November 21, 2002, the courageous and indefatigable journalist RamChandra Chhattrapati died in a hospital in Delhi, 28 days after he was shot by two persons who were followers of Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the head of the Dera Sacha Sauda in Sirsa, Haryana. It has […]
Why has our media failed to recognise and remember the contribution of a courageous journalist like Ram Chandra Chhattrapati in taking on the might of the Dera Sacha Sauda and exposing its sinister practices? Journalist and writer Pushpraj, who has been following the case to secure justice for […]
Virtually every day, important social media platforms like Facebook, Youtube and Twitter clamp down on news and views put out by independent news sites. These social media networks take refuge in ‘official’ communication, government orders or police directives and guidelines. Do these social media behemoths actually end up […]
Forget India Today anchor Rahul Kanwal’s ridiculous GI Joe shenanigans aired on the eve of the elections in Chhattisgarh today, how do ‘real’ journalists stay safe and still get the story when they are cover conflict in Bastar? Here’s a quick primer put together by Malini Subramaniam. The […]
Section 66A and other legal zombies IFF Research Series, Working Paper No. 2, November 2018 Despite the striking down of Sec 66A by the Supreme Court of India in March 2015, it continues to be in use by police across the country. In this important report, Abhinav Sekhri […]
“…when states see others getting away with it – whether ‘it’ is an audacious murder plot or the normalisation of a culture of violence – the accountability bar is reset to the lowest level,” says Andrew Heslop, WAN-IFRA’s Director of Press Freedom. It may be business as usual […]
Two journalists in India were killed in separate incidents barely two days before the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on Nov 2, 2018. Their deaths take the figure to six this year but even as the number of killings of journalists in India continues […]
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