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Musings on free speech and possible limits

February 7, 2011
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Musings on free speech and possible limits

The second half of 2010 saw some great online debates, fights and rants on an individual’s right of expression and limits to it, much fueled by Arundhati Roy’s controversial essay in Outlook on the Maoist insurgents followed by her even more controversial speech supporting Kashmir separatists that prompted some people to file a case...
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Time to do away with death penalty

January 31, 2011
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Time to do away with death penalty

Recently, the Supreme Court of India dismissed Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) plea that the life term awarded to Dara Singh for leading a mob that burnt alive Australian Christian missionary Dr Graham Staines (58) and his two sons Philip (10) and Timothy (6) on Jan 22, 1999 by the Orissa High Court be...
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