Big Brother is blocking you

Many of us know about it by now. On Friday, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) ordered all Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the country to block more than 70 URLs of content supposedly critical of business school Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and its dean Arindam Chaudhuri. DoT was obeying a Gwalior court order. The blocked URLs included links to blog posts, articles carried on websites of publications like The Indian Express, The Economic Times and Outlook, and even a notice issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

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