Hong Kong's independent bookstores are facing unprecedented pressure and closures. Recent arrests of booksellers under a new sedition law h...

On René Goscinny’s birth centenary, Asterix remains a powerful reflection on resistance to authority. Through humour, the comics explore pr...

Jawaharlal Nehru University cancelled an auditorium booking for a book discussion. The administration cited non-disclosure of full programm...

The word bowdlerize stems from Dr. Thomas Bowdler's edited Shakespearean plays. He removed passages deemed unsuitable for families and chil...

Quote of the Day by Salman Rushdie: Books offer solace and reshape understanding of life's complex emotions. Salman Rushdie's quote highlig...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is facing a fresh legal trouble after Pentagon school students have filed a lawsuit against him over book...

This refers to allegations in a memoir by former Meta executive Sarah Wynn-Williams that Zuckerberg sought access to the Chinese market by ...

The Rajiv Gandhi government’s ban on The Satanic Verses in 1988 created unnecessary outrage. Lifting the import ban, though symbolic, hints...

Accusations of censorship began flying almost immediately from observers who fear sanitized literature could whitewash the past as well as ...

The publisher rewrote certain sections of the classics after deeming them "offensive."

A bench headed by Chief justice Dipak Misra said a book must not be read in a "fragmented manner" but as a whole.

The journalist-turned-social-activist also pointed out the recent violence at Delhi University and several such instances across universiti...

Arun Jaitley said Emergency is no longer possible in the country as media censorship is not possible in the digital era and amendment to th...

Pakistan is among the 10 worst countries along with Iran and China on the index of internet freedom, according to a global survey released ...

Singapore's second largest university has rejected an appeal to renew the tenure of an Indian-origin journalism Professor who is said to be...

47-year old Dr Cherian George joined NTU in 2004 and teaches courses on media at the university's Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and I...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan echoed Shiv Sena’s stand and said portions of Mistry’s book were “highly abusive and objectionable”.