No sedition here, please

IN Media Watch Briefs | 18/01/2017

The Indian Womens Press Corp in Delhi, housed for many years in a government bungalow, is a favourite low-cost location for holding press conferences and such like. But it is suddenly drawing attention for a condition it seems to have imposed on those renting space in its premises. Telegraph reports that the booking form now seeks a declaration that the event to be held will not have anti-national content: ""Nothing will be said which will be anti-national, question the integrity of the country, amount to sedition or cause harm to the reputation of the club." Seems the management is in tune with government of the day.

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Amazon resisting voluntary censorship

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Let the games begin

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