A take-down notice was sent to website Bodhicommons at the best of the Mathrubhumi management.  GEETA SESHU says the police cyber cell's job is not to curb dissent.

Do journalists question enough, asks Seema Azad, 'Dastak' editor who was charged under the UAPA  in this interview with SHOBHA S V

The reportage in Urdu newspapers was substantially responsible for the after-effects of Assam violence.  KABIR ALI calls for an end to the untenable theme of “conspiracy against Islam and Muslimsâ€�.

An RTI application to demand that the Press Council of India make public its report on paid news yielded an encouraging result,  but will the regulatory body learn its lesson? A FREE SPEECH HUB report.

Is the police above the law? Is its investigations above scrutiny? When Tehelka journalist K K Shahina decided to investigate the police case against Abdul Nasar Madani in the Bengaluru blasts case, she was charged with intimidating witnesses,  striking a blow to critical journalistic enquiry, say JENNY ROWENA AND K ASHRAF.

The impunity with which journalists were attacked by CPM cadre in Lalgarh, West Bengal, on September 3, and the state government in denial mode – is a good indicator to the value attached to freedom of speech and expression – or the lack of it,  as these graphic reports from ‘The Telegraph’ correspondent, PRONAB MONDAL, reveal.

Infringing the media's 'right to question' is a common phenomenon in a politically divided West Bengal. But without that right, objectivity and truth are seriously compromised.  SAADIA AZIM reports on a disturbing trend.

While the state provided no special right to the press, the judiciary was forced to expand the scope of the Constitutional provisions,  says LAWRENCE LIANG, in the first of a two-part series that examines the history of the relationship between Art. 19 (1) (a) and the Press in India

When a government adopts propaganda as a mechanism to reach out to the people, it is a tacit admission of a people's divided thinking on the role of the Maoists.  writes MEENA GOPAL