Talk:Freedom of expression in India

Updating

I will be updating and contributing to this article bit by bit in coming times.I wonder why Freedom of expression does not have indipendant article in en wiki any way we do have india centric article about freedom of expression.Mahitgar (talk) 06:42, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Where the mind is without fear

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high

Where knowledge is free

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments

By narrow domestic walls

Where words come out from the depth of truth

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way

Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit

Where the mind is led forward by thee

Into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

a famous poem by Rabindranath Tagore about freedom of expression

===Freedom of expression is the matrix

• Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.
  • Benjamin N. Cardozo, Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319, 327, (1937) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahitgar (talk • contribs) 06:52, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

George Bernard Shaw

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” — George Bernard Shaw

Mahitgar (talk) 08:45, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Satyameva Jayate

Satyameva Jayate is India’s national motto. The English translation of the Sanskrit is “Truth Alone Prevails.”

Satyam Shivam sundaram

Satyam Shivam Sundaram Truth is God and God is beautiful" Prayer on you tube

W. Somerset Maugham

“If a nation or an individual values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too.” - W. Somerset Maugham Posted by Mahitgar (talk) 08:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Manmohan Singh

NEW DELHI, April 19 (Bernama) -- Amidst increasing criticism by the Left parties against the free market forces in the wake of price rise, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday said that his government has followed the 'hands-off' policies and will remain committed to liberalisation.

"We remain committed to economic reform and liberalisation. In ancient India, a monarch was regarded as a good king if he did not interfere too much in the life of the people. That has been our guiding principle as as well," the Press Trust of India(PTI) quoted Manmohan as saying to delegates of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-City India Global Forum.

He said his government was also committed to an environment of freedom "in which creativity and enterprise of our people can find its full and free expression".[1] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahitgar (talk • contribs) 09:57, 5 October 2008 (UTC)

Police "booked" students for publishing a magazine including Modi in a "negative faces" collage

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Modi-in-negative-faces-list-4-students-among-7-booked/articleshow/36356487.cms

Police "booked" students for publishing a magazine including Modi in a "negative faces" collage. BJP workers burnt copies of the magazine.

I would include this in the article, but I am not sure what they mean by "booked". Cheers! Nicolas1981 (talk) 11:24, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

Potential copyright violations

I have declined the G12 speedy deletion for this as this link very clearly has copied the wikipeida page. I stongly suspect it's the same case with this one as it was posted in July 2011 and the majority of the text in our article is present in the original version in 2008. If anyone still has concerns I suggest using {{subst:copyvio|url=insert URL here}} and posting at Wikipedia:Copyright problems. Sarahj2107 (talk) 13:28, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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Censorship mention in lede

This addition is well-sourced by three reliable sources. Perhaps it should be re-worded and not be in the lede, but the content is well-sourced.
Any utterance about the government is duly removed through regressive legal practices or trolled in social media through paid members of BJP IT Cell.

• Al Jazeera http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/07/free-speech-threat-modi-india-170712131837718.html
• Mint (newspaper) http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/vuN4B1l4CSqdEKlGG9d7uL/The-need-for-a-debate-on-free-speech.html
• The Wire (Indian web publication) https://thewire.in/8151/how-the-government-is-using-powers-it-doesnt-have-to-curb-freedom-of-speech/

Jim1138 (talk) 18:34, 24 October 2017 (UTC)

None of the source you mentioned have those words. The statement "Any utterance about the government is duly removed through regressive legal practices or trolled in social media through paid members of BJP IT Cell."is definitely WP:OR. Crawford88 (talk) 04:34, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Someone else removed it... Jim1138 (talk) 04:51, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

Also, I don't think it's relevant in the lead. There's nothing to suggest in your cited sources or otherwise that the curtailment of FoE is a recent phenomenon. It looks better suited at Freedom_of_expression_in_India#Practical_constraints_and_curtailments. Crawford88 (talk) 12:29, 25 October 2017 (UTC)