http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/opinion/indias-limited-freedom-of-speech.html?_r=1&
INDIA is in the throes of what Salman Rushdie rightly calls a “cultural emergency.” This year, the world’s largest democracy ranked a miserable 140th out of 179 countries in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index — falling nine places from last year. Today, Afghanistan and Qatar have a freer press than India.
INDIA is in the throes of what Salman Rushdie rightly calls a “cultural emergency.” This year, the world’s largest democracy ranked a miserable 140th out of 179 countries in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index — falling nine places from last year. Today, Afghanistan and Qatar have a freer press than India.
- In November, police in Mumbai arrested a 21-year-old woman for complaining on Facebook about the shutdown of the city after the death of the nativist politician Bal K. Thackeray
- Government demanding that companies like Google and Facebook prescreen content and remove items that might be deemed “disparaging” or “inflammatory,”
- On a panel titled “Republic of Ideas,” the sociologist Ashis Nandy, perhaps the country’s most prominent public intellectual, offered a nuanced argument about the prevalence of corruption among the lower castes.
- On a panel titled “Republic of Ideas,” the sociologist Ashis Nandy, perhaps the country’s most prominent public intellectual, offered a nuanced argument about the prevalence of corruption among the lower castes.Vishwaroopam
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