Charlie Chaplin’s statue? Over my dead body…
*** UPDATE *** Pl. see my comment at # 12 and Nanda’s at # 13. *** This is a very hurried (but almost effortless) post…the kind of post in which words simply flow out...
Tagged: Freedom of expression
On Blogs, Comments, Liability and Being Sued
This is a quick post or more accurately, a collection of snippets in reaction to recent news about a bloggerin Kerala being refused protection against summons issued by the High Court in Maharashtra over comments...
I Hate Bloggers*
*** Why I Hate Bloggers *** Reflections of a “mainstream” journalist/reporter They trawl the internet (and worse, google caches) to find words/reports/quotes from me that are either a] embarrassing and/or b] contradict my current position/actions and/or...
“Three Hundred Ramayanas” & “The Jewel of Medina”
Last week, responding to a petition to ban a history textbook, the Supreme Court asked Delhi University’s expert panel to consider the views of petitioners before submitting a final report to the Vice-Chancellor. As some...
Will Arundhati Roy pl. stand up for Francois Gautier?
Some of you may have already read this. Francois Gautier’s exhibition on Aurangzeb, based on historical documents and paintings, has been forcibly shut down by authorities in Chennai (after successfully exhibiting in Delhi, Pune...
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