Press Freedom
Hindutva’s ‘Giant Mahabharatha skeleton Found’ story is a hoax
Washington, Dec.15 (ANI): A report that suggested that a National Geographic Society team had dug up a giant human skeleton in India, in collaboration with the Indian Army, and linked it to events related to the mythological epic Mahabharatha, has been exposed as a hoax.
“Recent exploration activity in the northern region of India uncovered skeletal [...]
Amnesty International’ Full Report on India 2007
Amnesty International Press Release, May 25, 2007,
Perpetrators of past human rights violations continued to enjoy impunity. Concerns grew over protection of economic, social and cultural rights of already marginalized communities. Human rights violations were reported in several states where security legislation was used to facilitate arbitrary detention and torture. A new anti-terror law, in place [...]
Indian Defence and its Objections against 3G spectrum
India is a unique democracy, probably as unique as unique could get. A powerful judiciary, a free press, all very good. But will somebody please explain since when has India turned a demo-militia. You think that is an exaggeration then why is the defence raising objections in commercial policy matters of the country? Will somebody [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Indians are worlds most undemocratic people: Book
New Delhi, March. 4 (PTI): Indians are perhaps the world’s most undemocratic people, living in the world’s largest and most plural democracy where a person’s self-worth is almost exclusively determined by the rank he occupies, says a new book. A profoundly hierarchical society, in India the determination of relative rank (Is this person superior [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2006 : India remains at one of the lowest position, 105
War, the destroyer of press freedom in Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority
France and the United States slip further The Arab world affected by row over Mohammed cartoons
New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued today, while the most repressive countries are [...]
Sarai Report on Media Censorship in South Asia 2006
Report on the curtain raiser at Sarai, 21 February, 2006
The curtain raiser at Sarai to the South Asia seminar on censorship – Free Speech & Fearless Listening: The encounter with censorship in South Asia -organised by the Delhi Film Archive and the Films For Freedom, Delhi, in collaboration with Sarai and the Max Mueller [...]
