In recent times, the right to speech, expression and the right to protest have been constantly undermined. An attack on these rights runs contrary to the spirit of civilised democracy. We need to exercise these rights within the Constitution’s conditions and the government is duty-bound to provide these conditions.
The Writer, the Reader and the State: Literary Censorship in India by Mini Chandran, New Delhi, California, London and Singapore: Sage Publications, 2017; pp xxxv + 191, `695.
The recent drama around the resignation of the chairman of the Central Board of Film Certification has served to focus attention on some basic issues of film censorship/certification in India and the limits of tolerance and sensitivity associated with the current censorship regime. But it has also overshadowed the issue of politically motivated film censorship, cases of which are becoming all too frequent.
Contempt of Court by C J Miller; Oxford University Press, pp 769, £ 125.
Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information: Essays in Honour of Sir David Williams edited by Jack Beatson and Yuonne Cripps; Oxford University Press, pp 421, £ 35.
