ए.बी.वी.पी. के अकाउंट ब्लोक तथा शहरों में बढ़ते माओवादी नेटवर्क का विश्लेषण
२३-२४ मार्च को अपने आप अखिल भारतीय विद्यार्थी परिषद् के तथा इनके कुछ प्रसिद्द छात्रों More...
What stops me from speaking my mind- a common man’s open letter to Rama Guha
Dear Mr Guha, Even though I cannot claim to be your fan, or even someone who follows your writings seriously, I cannot help, but notice some similarities between us. Like you, I too have been a lifelong cricket More...
How Scroll.in is part of Omidyar’s Breaking India Network
[contextly_sidebar id=”kGUimsh7QzG4xPoBbePVIdQLR5xwcjxs”] Scroll.in raises millions of dollars from Omidyar Network On March 19, 2013 The Times of India reported that the US based philanthropic venture More...
Thou Shalt Not Comment : The Dictatorship of scroll.in
[contextly_sidebar id=”QRYDs6o13ML78jc1WShLQ5e3S8WXGROd”] In January 2013, a small obscure web portal was started; a digital daily in the scroll format, where new posts are just stacked over one another More...
Barkha Dutt Now Targets Amazon
Like Britney (or was it Christina ?) Spears said “oops I did it again”. The large, pan India group of people who support Narendra Modi and the BJP or (trolls/thugs/Sanghis/Hindu Wahabists—take your pick) have More...
The Hindu View on Freedom of Expression and Public Discourse
This essay was jointly authored by Hari Ravikumar. For a moment, just try to visualize the kind of public debates that happen today, on television, in the newspapers, and in person. In the light of these images More...
Islamophobia: An Invention that Enfeebles Free Speech
In my earlier essay on the topic, I discussed the damaging influence that political Islam has over public discourse by preventing people from examining the root causes of Islamism. In this piece, I examine political More...
Shirin Dalvi shame: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost her job and is being prosecuted by the authorities and persecuted by her own community. Her crime? On 17 January, More...
Time to shed Emergency legacy
Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The mindset vilifies anything that More...
The Marxist Devil is real and he hates free speech
Note: This is a guest article by Neha Srivastava. Lots of politicians and their supporters have been hurling “paid media” allegations at media houses lately, but this is not about that. I am here to talk about More...