Talk at your own peril, warns Abhinav Chandrachud in Republic of Rhetoric
The fascinating, tangled backstory of our right to speak freely is what scholar, author and advocate of the Bombay High Court, Abhinav Chandrachud, unravels in Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India.
Be silent. Even before Salman Rushdie declared India to be in the grip of a "cultural emergency"; before the culture of bhakt vitriol became a social phenomenon; before the Supreme Court asked the Law Commission of India to propose a penalty for hate speech; before 2016 turned out to be the year of sedition and
