New breed of liberals thriving in Indian varsities: Freedom of immorality or freedom of expression: Universities and colleges in India have been lately busy in unique fests and shows. Strangely, although they are not academic but they are getting big support from people of all walks of life. Teachers, students, media, intellectuals, activists, NGOs etc.…
A day after his apparent jibe at Bollywood actor Aamir Khan in context of intolerance debate caused a flutter, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar today said he did not target any specific person but is against overall “unrest”. Parrikar also said that he was not opposed to the “freedom of expression, but feels that country is…
When was the last time the Indian Parliament debated anything related to the internal affairs of an alien nation? Forget alien nation, the record of nearly 20-plus years shows that our political parties are busy pulling each other down in Parliamentary debates and very few, if any of these debates have been about or in…
Does freedom of speech not apply to Baba Ramdev? That’s what BJP president Amit Shah wants to know. Absolutely, it does. Baba Ramdev, if you remember, decided a Sadbhavna (compassion) rally was the perfect setting to thunder “Koi aadmi topi pehan kar ke khada ho jaata hai, bolta Bharat Mata ki Jai nahi bolunga, chahe…
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India is losing its democratic prominence in terms of freedom of speech and expression, Prof Vesselin Popovski, Executive Director, Centre for the Study of United Nations and former Bulgarian diplomat, has said. He was speaking exclusively to ‘Express’ on the sidelines of the three-day international seminar on ‘Human rights and policing’ held at Government…
NEW DELHI — A journalist in eastern India was arrested after he posted a message on social media criticizing the police and calling for legal protections for reporters in the violence-scarred region, his lawyer said Wednesday. The journalist, Prabhat Singh, who had worked for an Indian television network and had been posting news on social…
Washington D.C., Mar 20, 2016 / 04:53 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- India is making a mistake in refusing to issue visas to a U.S. international religious freedom organization, said religious liberty advocates and experts specializing in the South Asian country. “This is a missed opportunity for India and for religious freedom. We had hoped to travel…
NEW DELHI: Amid the JNU row and the controversy over AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi’s refusal to chant Bharat Mata ki Jai, the BJP termed the Hyderabad MP’s move as disrespect to the Constitution, while also hitting out at the Congress and other Opposition parties. “Refusal to chant victory to Bharat tantamounts to disrespect to our…
History and hypocrisy are the helixed hobgoblins of democracy. The first one claims to be the motherboard that rewired the circuitry of a previous dark time by turning it to an enlightened one. The other excuses acts of aggrandisement and appeasement by bestowing a cheap certificate of faux freedom—of freedoms of civilised society, like freedom…
Asserting that the BJP Government has taken major strides towards the development of poor villagers and farmers with the Union Budget unleashing a slew of allocations for “gaon, garib aur kisan”, BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday said the Garibi Hatao movement is finally finding its feet under the Modi dispensation, which is taking “one…