Warning signals of a constriction of freedoms

It is an irony likely to be lost on purveyors of manufactured outrage that on this Republic Day, once again India was intimated about the precariousness of the freedom of expression guaranteed in the Constitution. An FIR has been lodged against social theorist Ashis Nandy under sections of the IPC and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for remarks made during a panel discussion at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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