Ravish Kumar was one of the biggest independent voices of Indian channel NDTV before he dramatically resigned to set up his own YouTube channel in 2022. Vrinda Sharma has been at his side ever since
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Iranian filmmakers pull it out of the bag
An exploration of some of the innovative strategies employed by Iran’s directors to circumvent censorship
Banned: school librarians shushed over LGBT+ books
A special investigation reveals more than half of UK school librarians surveyed by Index have been asked to remove books from their shelves
Contents – The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
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The final cut: How cinema is being used to change the global narrative
Volume 53.02 Summer 2024
Undercover freedom fund
We talk to the founders of Bysol, a non-profit humanitarian foundation using cryptocurrency to help dissidents in Belarus and aid the Ukrainian war effort
The unstilled voice of Gazan theatre
Laura Silvia Battaglia recalls the last play she saw in Gaza and talks to its director today about how theatre is still providing a voice for the displaced, even in refugee camps
First they came for the Greens
A look at the violent attacks being carried out against Germany’s Green Party as politicians standing on an eco-ticket in the European Parliament elections suffered big losses
The long reach: How authoritarian countries are silencing critics abroad
Volume 53.01 Spring 2024
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A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.