BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |30/01/2015
Shirin Dalvi, the editor of Urdu newspaper Avadhnama, was arrested in Mumbai for publishing a cartoon of the Charlie Hebdo cover.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN CENSORSHIP |30/01/2015
Shirin Dalvi, the editor of Urdu newspaper Avadhnama, was arrested in Mumbai for publishing a cartoon of the Charlie Hebdo cover.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN LAW AND POLICY |03/10/2014
In the first of its kind, a public hearing by the Law Commission on the future of media regulation drew forth divided opinions.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |15/09/2014
The national media did not quite capture the calamity of the Kashmir floods in all its myriad aspects, human, social and political.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |04/07/2014
Facebook's violation of privacy and ethics in its 'emotional contagion' research is causing a furore yet does not seem to have figured in Narendra Modi's talks with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |04/07/2014
Facebook's violation of privacy and ethics in its 'emotional contagion' research is causing a furore yet does not seem to have figured in Narendra Modi's talks with Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |06/06/2014
The new government's silence on the spate of attacks on free speech is ominous.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA FREEDOM |06/06/2014
The new government's silence on the spate of attacks on free speech is ominous.
BY Geeta Seshu| IN DIGITAL MEDIA |19/05/2014
MPs, who spoke up against the draconian provisions of the IT Act, are now in government
BY Geeta Seshu| IN MEDIA PRACTICE |12/05/2014
Almost every party indulged in the use of vitriol, which may not have directly exhorted violence but definitely lowered the tone and tenor of the debate.
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The new term for self censorship is voluntary censorship, as proposed by companies like Netflix and Hotstar. ET reports that streaming video service Amazon Prime is opposing a move by its peers to adopt a voluntary censorship code in anticipation of the Indian government coming up with its own rules. Amazon is resisting because it fears that it may alienate paying subscribers.                   

Clearly, the run to the 2019 elections is on. A journalist received a call from someone saying they were from Aajtak channel and were conducting a survey, asking whom she was going to vote for in 2019. On being told that her vote was secret, the caller assumed she wasn't going to vote for 'Modiji'. The caller, a woman, also didn't identify herself. A month or two earlier the same journalist received a call, this time from a man, asking if she was going to vote for the BSP.                 

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