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In this special bulletin of Free Speech Talkies, Malini Subramaniam speaks to journalists Pushpa Rokde, P Ranjan Dash, Chetan Kapewar and Ganesh Mishra about the precarious state of free speech in Bastar and what the death of Mukesh Chandrakar means to journalists in Bastar.

Welcome to Kashmir….the tourist paradise! What do we see in Kashmir? What do we hear? What do we know of this beautiful paradise on Earth? A Free Speech Collective campaign for World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2023

Dec 10, 2023, marks 75 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the recognition of the rights and freedoms of all human beings. To commemorate this important day, People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Maharashtra and Free Speech Collective (FSC) organised a book reading of “From Phansi Yard : My Year with the Women of Yerwada”, written by trade…

Watch Episode 1 of Free Speech Talkies with Laxmi Murthy, where well-known film critic Anna MM Vetticad decodes the implications of the High Court directive on 25 October, 2023 on “review bombing” for free speech and for the right of independent reviewers for fair comment and opinion.

On May 3, on the eve of World Press Freedom Day 2022, we present FEAR OF SPEECH, a short film by students of Whistling Woods International, the film, communication and creative arts institute located in Mumbai, India, done in association with Free Speech Collective.

”Ultimately, the challenge to surveillance of any kind is essentially on the basis of right to privacy” - Mihir Desai, senior lawyer and human rights activist, speaks at a discussion on Surveillance and Pegasus hosted by Free Speech Collective, Network of Women in Media India and SabrangIndia, on July 26, 2021.

“There is no judicial or parliamentary oversight over surveillance that is carried out” - Mishi Choudhary, Legal Director of the Software Freedom Law Center speaks at a discussion on Surveillance and Pegasus hosted by Free Speech Collective, Network of Women in Media India and SabrangIndia, July 26, 2021.

Pegasus is an issue that concerns the integrity of the democratic institutions not just in India but around the world." M K Venu, Founding Editor, The Wire, speaks on 'India's Deep State: Is Any Citizen Safe?', a discussion on Pegasus and surveillance hosted by Free Speech Collective, Network for Women in Media India and SabrangIndia, on July 26, 2021.

“Pegasus actually classifies as a cyber weapon” - Apar Gupta, Executive Director, Internet Freedom Foundation, speaks at a discussion on Surveillance and Pegasus hosted by Free Speech Collective, Network of Women in Media India and SabrangIndia, July 26, 2021.

The disclosure that thousands of journalists, lawyers, politicians, human rights activists and prominent dissidents across the world had been spied upon by their governments using a spyware tool, ‘Pegasus’, struck at the very heart of the trust imposed by citizens on the State, especially in democracies, to safeguard their personal data and privacy. Speakers: M […]