free speech
NI contributor's freedom of speech under threat
Submitted by Adam Ma'anit on June 23, 2008 - 6:57pm.
NI co-editor Dinyar Godrej, alterted us to the situation regarding political psychologist and NI contributor Read more », Professor Ashis Nandy. Nandy is at the centre of a firestorm over an article he wrote after last year's elections in the Indian state of Gujarat which resulted in the re-election of one of India's most incendiary politicians – Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.
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Free speech fallacies
Submitted by Adam Ma'anit on November 29, 2007 - 2:16pm.
Oxford University student Clare Fisher writes in to tell us her views on the recent controversy surrounding the Oxford Union's decision to hold a debate on free speech including the controversial head of the Far Right British National Party (BNP), Nick Griffin, and Holocaust denier David Irving. Read more »
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