by freespeechcollective | Feb 19, 2026 | Commentaries
Amid calls to end a media ban between India and Pakistan, journalist and author Meena Menon*, who was summarily asked to leave Islamabad in 2014, reflects on the impact of the media ban on the free flow of information between the two countries. Over a decade ago, when...
by freespeechcollective | Feb 5, 2026 | Commentaries
– A first-person account by author and journalist Neeta Kolhatkar The last two days have been an eye-opener for me, regarding literary festivals and cancel culture. Nowadays a new trend seems to be, to invite speakers and cancel the event, citing ‘unseen...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 26, 2026 | Statements
On the occasion of India’s 77th Republic Day, the statement below, endorsed by more than 130 journalists and civil society activists across India, marks the precarious state of media freedom in Kashmir. For some years now, journalists in Jammu and Kashmir have...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 13, 2026 | Censorship - Protests/Meetings, Commentaries
– By Ritika Jain* Terms like “freedom of speech,” “freedom of expression,” “Article 19” or even a simple “free” do not even find a mention in the Supreme Court’s January 5 judgement in the bail applications for the student and youth activists accused in the...
by freespeechcollective | Jan 1, 2026 | Censorship, Censorship - Academia
In a shocking incident of censorship, the services of Prof Lora Santhakumar, an assistant professor at SRM University’s Career Development Centre (CDC),Chennai, were terminated due to her comments against war, made on her personal social media account, in the...
