Dhobi Ghat Ep 10: Government Censorship of Internet

Madhu Trehan speaks to Kanchan Gupta, Dipankar Gupta, Vinod Mehta and Manish Tewari on the government’s recent blocking of twitter handles and websites, “trial by Kafka”, signs of an unsure polity, why Raj Thackeray is never censored, the state vs the public and more

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Madhu Trehan speaks to Kanchan Gupta, Dipankar Gupta, Vinod Mehta and Manish Tewari on the government’s recent blocking of twitter handles and websites, “trial by Kafka”, signs of an unsure polity, why Raj Thackeray is never censored, the state vs the public and more

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