Were they killed for their work? Were they involved in other, personal interests, which spilled over into their professional lives? Did their professional and personal enemies conspire to kill them?  GEETA SESHU on the poor quality of investigations which have followed these deaths.

Is a new service on the Internet search giant's blogging platform conducive to censorship?  REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS asks Google, and Google responds.

Free speech and freedom of expression are the raison d'être of CR anywhere in the world and they are going well beyond their mandates to do so in India,  but it is imperative they are given a boost, says DR. KANCHAN K. MALIK

While the dust has settled over ‘the Ghost who (didn't) walk' in Jaipur, the debate over whether the entire episode destroyed or protected freedom of expression rages on.  FREE SPEECH HUB brings together a quick compilation of different strands of opinion on this issue, not all of which we may agree with. In Part III, MUSHIRUL HASAN says that there are other ‘more important' issues for the media and muslims to deal with right now.

While the dust has settled over ‘the Ghost who (didn't) walk' in Jaipur, the debate over whether the entire episode destroyed or protected freedom of expression rages on.  FREE SPEECH HUB brings together a quick compilation of different strands of opinion on this issue, not all of which we may agree with. In Part II, SHAHID SIDDIQUI urges the intelligentsia not to be swayed by ‘Rushdie-ism'.