Although the Centre has lifted a temporary ban on two Malayalam TV channels, Asianet News and Media One, sooner than expected, the orders of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on late March 6 enforcing a 48-hour ban on them bring to the fore the propensity for abuse of power and sheer arbitrariness in the decision, … Continue reading The Brief Ban on Two TV Channels an Arbitrary Attempt to Manufacture Consent
ban
Banning burqas in MES isn’t just tough, it is dangerous for its president Dr Fazal Gafoor
Fazal Gafoor is a ‘cosmopolitan’, if you apply the great thinker Benedict Anderson’s definition of the term. He speaks multiple languages, having been to primary school in Edinburgh where his mother and he had accompanied his father who had moved to the Scottish capital from Kerala to pursue studies in the 1950s. While Gafoor was … Continue reading Banning burqas in MES isn’t just tough, it is dangerous for its president Dr Fazal Gafoor