by Sonia Malik
Abstract
The Fairness Doctrine is a mechanism that imposes affirmative responsibilities on a broadcaster to issue airspace to discuss the problems of public importance that is important and reflects differing viewpoints. This (...)
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Identifying the Role of Fairness Doctrine in promoting Local Accountability over Licensing: A study on its implications in past and future
21 December 2019 -
All is not Lost
21 December 2019All is not lost.
The young still feel the sting
Of oppression.
Setting aside the quiescent
Counsel of terrified time,
They rise, singing a defiant rhyme.
Women, dragged by the hair,
Lead the march of assertion
Against the strategy of fear.
While (...) -
Dividing the Nation on Communal Lines
8 December 2019, by SCEDITORIAL
Today is December 5, 2019. Four months ago, on August 5, 2019 the Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution were revoked and severe restrictions were imposed on Kashmir and Kashmiris residing in the Valley which was subjugated with the (...) -
BJP Is Not India
8 December 2019, by Barun Das GuptaJust five years in power have made the BJP so arrogant, so intolerant and so haughty! These five years have inflated its oversized collective ego so much that it has started equating itself with India, the Indian nation, the Indian people. Any (...) -
How Indian Society is Failing all its Women and Humanity as a Whole
8 December 2019by Ayushi Golwara
A woman boards a Delhi Metro at 11.20 pm, sees around and gets to know that there are only five men in that metro and NO woman. She regrets it the entire time, that why did she not see before boarding the metro, thinks of all (...) -
Grim Warning from Bhopal
8 December 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFrom N.C.’s Writings
It was a massacre of innocents by all counts. What happened at the Union Carbide plant at Bhopal in the early morning of December 3 was not just a tragedy but a heinous crime which killed nearly two thousand and hospitalised (...) -
Human Rights: Basic Issues / Not Sorrow but Atonement
8 December 2019Human Rights Day is observed on December 10 every year commemorating the day, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To mark the occasion we are reproducing the following article N.C. (...) -
Islamophobia: What’s Common between Payal Tadvi and Fathima Latif
8 December 2019by Ram Puniyani
Lately committing of suicide in higher places of learning has been in the news more often than before. Most of the victims belong to the Dalits, Adivaisis in particular, while a few others have also done so due to academic (...) -
India Exits the RCEP: What Happens Next?
8 December 2019by Kavaljit Singh
On November 4, India announced its decision to exit the negotiations on the proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) —a mega-regional free trade agreement. Prime Minister Narendra Modi conveyed the decision at (...) -
RCEP — Domestic Compulsions Outweigh Global Commitments
8 December 2019by Mahendra Ved
While announcing that it was not joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partner-ship (RCEP) “for now”, India has rightly indicated that it was postponing the decision. It must join, sooner than later, if it wants to play a (...)