While books have been written on the subject, the question continues to be raised: Does the right to free expression include the right to incite hatred, disrupt public order and create social tensions?
The report they don't want you to read. Full text of the controversial report by the Press Council of India's subcommittee to probe the Paid News scandal
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 5 August 2010
Noam Chomsky is direct as ever on 9/11, US bombings, the fate of Afghanistan and the rise of extremism and fanaticism in India
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 4 December 2001
The case of the recent change in the shareholding pattern of Associated Cement Companies (ACC) has raised a number of questions about the role and relative responsibilities of a company's controllers and its promoters
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 14 November 2001
The regulator of India's capital markets complains it is inadequately empowered, but there are influentialinterest groups that are opposed to the governmentsharpening SEBI's teeth.
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 23 October 2001
The curious case of corruption against B. Shankaranand
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 22 July 2001
It is not just about the authenticity or otherwise of the CSO's estimates, but the bigger picture on the economic front is pretty gloomy.
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 1 July 2001
A set of glaring loopholes have been deliberately left wide open in this country's laws to enable racketeers of various hues to use the Mauritius route for a range of nefarious activities
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 9 June 2001
The fact that the Union government has been weakened after the assembly elections is but only one of the many factors which are responsible for the slowing-down of two ongoing economic processes.
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 14 May 2001
The business-bureaucracy-politics-media nexus has always existed, but no one group has managed to have so many friends in so many high places before.
BY Paranjoy Guha Thakurta 29 April 2001
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