by freespeechcollective | Feb 16, 2024 | Statements
“Please find below my statement. I am writing these words in tears. Today, I am leaving India, the country where I came 25 years ago as a student, and where I have worked for 23 years as a journalist. The place where I married, raised my son, and which I call my...
by freespeechcollective | Feb 10, 2024 | Attacks - Journalists
Civil society has roundly condemned the BJP attack on senior journalist Nikhil Wagle, lawyer Aseem Sarode and activist Vishwambhar Choudhary in Pune yesterday. The three were proceeding towards the venue of a public meeting called by the Nirbhay Bano group organised...
by freespeechcollective | Feb 8, 2024 | Censorship - The Arts
On Feb 2, 2024, students of Pune University’s Lalit Kala Kendra were subjected to attacks and harassment by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and the Bharatiya Jan Yuva Morcha (BJYM) when they were making an examination presentation of a...
by freespeechcollective | Feb 1, 2024 | Censorship - Academia
Students and faculty from IIT Bombay held a unique protest of the abrupt cancellation of the lecture by linguist scholar Ganesh Devy on Thursday. Here is an account by Shyama Iyer. They read out extracts from his book outside the venue of the meeting. The institute...
