Tag: poverty
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all of this goes back to James Hamilton [a professor of communication at Stanford University]. He gets tremendous props for caring about this. His story of how he came to study this is really interesting. I heard him describe it as, he was in a convenience store, and he saw a newspaper that was basically…
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The ability to buy small amounts of prepaid calling time had enabled the very poor in many countries to gain access to mobile phones. In Latin America, however, high taxes on communication services impedes some of that access, with a typical broadband plan costing 66% more than in the average developed country. In Asia, meanwhile,…
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Tooks Chambers has a proud record of defending the rights of the under privileged and the oppressed. From its early days of defending miners and their communities during their year long strike, consistently tackling miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six and representing the family of Stephen Lawrence, to its current involvement in landmark…
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Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, urges self-regulation by all rather than giving free speech a bad name.
How would you evaluate the state of individual freedoms in India at the practical level? Do the rich have more of it than the poor? In (V.S.) Naipaul’s phrase, India has a million mutinies (going on) diurnally. This social anarchy contributes to free speech. Trade unionists, journalists, social activists, artists and writers are dealt with…
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Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate of the Supreme Court, urges self-regulation by all rather than giving free speech a bad name.
How would you evaluate the state of individual freedoms in India at the practical level? Do the rich have more of it than the poor? In (V.S.) Naipaul’s phrase, India has a million mutinies (going on) diurnally. This social anarchy contributes to free speech. Trade unionists, journalists, social activists, artists and writers are dealt with…
Sameer Padania 