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Anonymous, India and the Blackhat Spectacle: Oxblood Ruffin
Guest post by OXBLOOD RUFFIN If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not...
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Open Letter from Anonymous to the Government of India
Dear Government of India, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you have blocked filesharing websites in India. We also know you are in the process of making a Great Indian Firewall, to...
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Creating Happiness – Rijul Kochhar
Guest post by RIJUL KOCHHAR It is a minute and a half long, and from the moment you see it, you will know that there is something sinister about it—a scenario of forced forgetfulness. It is...
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The Hooter Marks Time
Each morning, factory hooters call out to India’s 50 million industrial workers, many of whom stand by their stations and repeat a single set of tasks with unerring regularity until the hooter sounds...
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An Analysis of the Latest Round of Internet Censorship in India (Communalism...
Guest post by PRANESH PRAKASH How many items have been blocked? There are a total of 309 specific items (those being URLs, Twitter accounts, img tags, blog posts, blogs, and a handful of websites) that...
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Full text: The Indian government’s recent orders to Internet Service...
Joji Thomas Philip has put out these documents in The Economic Times. 18 August: 19 August: 20 August: 21 August: See also: Pranesh Prakash’s analysis of the blocked content Filed under: Government,...
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Borderline madness: Sajan Venniyoor
Guest post by SAJAN VENNIYOOR Now that government agencies in India — some half a dozen of them working with the exceptional coordination we have come to expect from government agencies — have...
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Why is the Indian media building a case for internet censorship rather than...
Hundreds of webpages now stand blocked in India, the government has openly been appealing to internet companies to pre- or post-screen content and remove what the government wants it to remove. One...
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Copyrights versus The Right to Copy – A Normative Perspective: Rajshree Chandra
Guest post by RAJSHREE CHANDRA For those not familiar with the recent spate of events at Delhi University; and for those who may have missed Lawrence Liang’s post, here’s a bird’s eye view: Impatient...
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Shadow Libraries
This is an article that I have written for e-flux which speaks to some of the debates that have taken place in Kafila on the photocopying case at DU. Most of the debates have been framed thus far by...
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Academic Publishers – An Insider’s perspective: Anonymous Contributor
I am posting an email I received this morning by someone who works at a leading multinational academic publishing house and hence wants to remain anonymous which raises very important points relevant...
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‘Media ka self-regulation ka drama expose ho jayega’
Madhu Trehan’s fascinating interview of Ravish Kumar: Reminds me of Trehan’s interview of the more rebellious Punya Prasoon Vajpayee: Filed under: Bad ideas, Media politics, Politics, Technology...
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Merry Copyright to you – A jingle for the Oxford v. Rameshwari Case
A group of publishers (Oxford and Cambridge University Press and Francis & Taylor) have sued Delhi University & its agent, Rameshwari Photocopy Service for compiling short extracts from...
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The Bitter Truth Regarding Delhi Police’s Womens’ Help-Line: Kavita
Guest post by KAVITA, an activist with the Stree Mukti League Translated from Hindi by Shuddhabrata Sengupta It would be natural to expect that in the wake of the barbaric Delhi gang-rape of December...
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Life without YouTube: Haseeb Asif
Guest post by HASEEB ASIF A young man wearing faded jeans and a t-shirt too unpleasantly tight around his middle, sits on his end in front of a laptop, weeping. The tears aren’t exactly the gushing...
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Arindam Chaudhuri promises to get Kafila page unblocked
Until Nikhil Pahwa of Medianama.com informed me, I had no clue that India’s unjust and arbitrary internet censorship regime had finally affected Kafila. Medianama published on Friday 15 February a...
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Some Urgent Considerations on Genetically Modified Crops and Food Security:...
This is a guest post by NEHA SAIGAL: The Budget Session is upon us and we might be witness to one of UPA’s most ambitious flagship programmes, the National Food Security Bill (NFSB), becoming a...
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On Passport Divas, ‘We are Like That Only, But We Want to be Superpower’!
‘It happens only in India’ – so goes the refrain. Because we are extra special. Yes we are. In our smugness and in our conceit. In our bloated sense of Self that will stop short of nothing less than...
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The Changed Face of the Newsroom: Monobina Gupta
Guest post by MONOBINA GUPTA. DelhiUniversity teachers are fighting back to hold on to the fast vanishing autonomy of academics and academia. For me, this is a significant moment. Not just because the...
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People’s Victory Against Chutka (Madhya Pradesh) Nuclear Power Plant: Lokesh...
Guest Post by Lokesh Malti Prakash The People of Chutka and adjoining villages in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh won another victory against the Chutka (Madhya Pradesh) Nuclear Power Plant (being...
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The Public Secret of Savita Bhabhi: Jyoti Singh
This is a guest post by JYOTI SINGH In May 2013, makers of the erotic comic strip came out with the Savita Bhabhi movie, where apart from Savita Bhabhi doing what she is best at, she also helps the...
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Documented Lives: Aadhar and the Identity Effect in Kashmir: Shrimoyee...
A version of this essay appeared in the Kashmir Reader, 10 December 2013 Guest Post by Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh On the road to the city from Srinagar Airport, I recently saw a billboard. Beneath the...
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Accident at Koodankulan Nuclear Reactor, at least 6 Injured
An Urgent Alert has been posted by NITYANAND JAYARAMAN in DiaNuke.org on an accident that occurred in Koodankulan sometime in the afternoon today. After initially flashing news about the incident, the...
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@NarendraModi, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the brand: Joyojeet...
Guest post by Joyojeet Pal Political Social Media had a minor event this week. The world’s two most followed elected leaders on social media, shared the media centerstage. Barack Obama, with 45 million...
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Position Paper on Higher Education: Academics for Creative Reform
“The manner in which the state is intervening in higher education is causing concern and even alarm in the academic community. Both the unlamented UPA—II regime and the current NDA government have been...
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The Indiscreet charm of Narendra Modi: Joyojeet Pal
Guest post by Joyojeet Pal Why the Silicon Valley (Generally) Loves Narendra Modi “Indians are the most prosperous group in the United States of America,” said comedian Rajiv Satyal, the compère of the...
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
Please share widely http://custodians.online/ A Letter in solidarity with Library genesis and Sci-Hub In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with...
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Sambit Patra Flying the Tricolour on Times Now, in JNU and on Iwo Jima –...
A recent ‘Newshour’ non-debate on Times Now on whether or not an order emanating from the Ministry of Human Resources Development to erect 207 feet high steel flagpoles and giant tricolour flags in...
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Breaking the Collective – Notes from Jantar Mantar & Koodankulam: Vivek Vellanki
Guest Post by Vivek Vellanki The death of the young girl brought incommensurable grief for the ‘Indian’ people. A national angst ensued with divergent voices seeking divergent ends: justice, death...
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Aadhar/UID is Against Equality and Democracy: Moiz Tundawala
Guest Post by Moiz Tundawala After the suppression of the 1857 Mutiny and the British take over of Delhi, Mirza Ghalib was once asked by a military official whether he were Muslim or not. Ghalib is...
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