Freedom and Television

Freedom and Television A G Noorani During the Hazratbal crisis, the Bombay police directed cable operators not to receive and communicate Pakistan TV's transmissions on the ground that they were likely to create communal ill will. This was both absurd and unconstitutional IT is by now woefully apparent that from the government of India downwards the concept of freedom of speech and expression is little understood by Indian authorities and even less so is its relevance and application to the right to receive and impart information through television.