17 December 2019, 05:30 am
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
Programme Type
Talks,
Webcasts
Venue
C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC main building
Prof. Mushirul Hasan Memorial Lecture 2019
Freedom & Sons Ltd. – The enterprise of free speech in a market of control
Speaker: Shri Goplakrishna Gandhi, former Governor of West Bengal, Distinguished Professor of History and Politics, Ashoka University
Chair: Shri N.N. Vohra, President, IIC
Moving from a 1941 contempt case brought against The Hindustan Times and through examples including that of Mushirul Hasan, in independent India, the lecture will ask if ‘the mind is without fear’ in India today
