Deliberate Debate Discourse: Dissent in a Digital Age

Amira Dhawan Rousseau had remarked that the true test of democracy lies in how freely the citizen is able to express dissent. While the act of dissenting has been constant the mode of expressing dissent is constantly evolving. Furthermore, the advancement of technology and its inclusion in our day to day lives, has led to …

Dissent in Democracy: Worries and Paradoxes

Adarsh Kumar Recent instances of the clampdown on dissent have not only been legitimised on the account of passiveness of the judiciary but the whole democratic imprint has somewhere led to depict dissent as a kind of criminal activity. Dissenters also seem to forget that dissent is not a freestanding value and so there needs …

National Security Laws: An Evangelist for the Death of Dissent

Kshitij Pal and Aryan Tikoo “If you can make people believe in absurdities, you can make them commit atrocities” - Voltaire Human rights and national security are often seen to be in conflict. When national security is debated by government leaders, their claims are based largely on the idea that protecting human rights and civil …

Right to Dissent: Looking at the Arnab Goswami case, Section 66A and the ICCPR

Madhvi Wadhawan Dissent is muzzled through abuse of State Machinery, which is usually used to arrest Journalists. The focus of this writing is on the landmark Supreme Court ruling of 27th November, 2020, wherein Arnab Goswami was released on bail, and the virtue of liberty declared sacrosanct by Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee. The …

Dissent and Democracy

This article is authored by Abhishek Chauhan. He is an advocate practicing in the Supreme Court of India. There is an often-quoted statement of Joseph Addison ‘better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honour’, the Supreme Court in Khedat Mazdoor Chetna Sangth v. State of Madhya Pradesh, posed a question to itself, as …