In the last ten years, 96 per cent of the sedition cases against 405 individuals pertained to making critical remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi......
Why should an elected government, any party's government, need a law to protect itself from its people? asks Shekhar Gupta. Photograph: PTI Photo The law of sedition is a remnant of......
One would not think that a Facebook status or a tweet could land you in jail, at least not in the world's largest democracy.However, the reality is a lot more brutal in India, which has a shameful......
A plea was filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over alleged misuse of penal law on sedition by the Centre and various states, claiming that students, scribes and intellectuals involved in......
In fresh guidelines to police, the Maharashtra government has asked it to rule out any ambiguity during invocation of the Indian Penal Code section pertaining to sedition and not to invoke it......
The recent arrest of two girls over a Facebook comment criticising the bandh called after the death of Bal Thackeray has created a furore in the digital world and across the nation and, has raised......
Bombay Velvet spends too much time on period details and loses focus, notes Aseem Chhabra. Towards the middle of Anurag Kashyap’s Bombay Velvet, Anushka Sharma’s Rosie Noronha stands on......
'I kept telling Anurag, "I don't care about anything, I don't want any money. Just get the film made".' 'One day I called Anurag and someone else picked up the phone. He said, "Hello, Sir." I......
Hemal Trivedi, a Hindu filmmaker originally from India, and Mohammed Ali Naqvi, a Muslim from Pakistan, made one of this year's most talked about films. One of the most talked about films at this......
Sometimes, yes. We take a look. Every few years, a Hollywood or a British production company re-discovers India and thinks it is cool to set a film there -- a film that will show the exotic......
Lootera reminds us why we like to watch films, writes Aseem Chhabra. How do two people fall in love? When do they first realize it is love and not just infatuation or physical attraction? In life......