BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN PRIVACY
|24/02/2018
The Supreme Court’s new ruling that poll candidates and their relatives must reveal the source of their income, infringes their fundamental right to privacy
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN JUDGEMENTS
|20/02/2018
After a spate of court orders gagging the media, two judges buck the trend in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Pachauri cases
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN LAW AND POLICY
|02/12/2017
Will journalism of the kind that published the Radia tapes, involving private conversations between private individuals, be precluded by a possible data protection law?
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN MEDIA PRACTICE
|19/11/2017
A Scroll report that patients will stop treatment revealed a lack of understanding and objectivity, adding to the misinformation.
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN CENSORSHIP
|16/11/2017
The FCAT is doing a good job of overruling the CBFC’s bizarre diktats but it could be less arbitrary about its own orders
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN MEDIA FREEDOM
|23/10/2017
The Supreme Court’s shaky jurisprudence on Article 19 (1)(a) has provided a foundation for the legislature to push for more restrictions on free speech.
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN LAW AND POLICY
|15/10/2017
The new hate speech provisions will apply only when likely to incite an offence or threaten public order. But making them cognizable is a cause for worry,
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN JUDGEMENTS
|30/09/2017
In two cases involving CNN IBN-Cobrapost and the ToI, the judiciary took 10 and 20 years respectively to decide cases of civil and criminal defamation.
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN LAW AND POLICY
|25/09/2017
Increasingly, MPs are summoning journalists to defend stories they consider false or defamatory. The list is getting quite long.
BY PRASHANT REDDY THIKKAVARAPU|
IN MEDIA PRACTICE
|09/09/2017
While the wire reports claimed that the government has “frozen” the bank accounts of all the 2.09 lakh companies, the PIB press release did not use the word “frozen” even once.
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