Publications

Cyber- A Space or Technology

An Article written for Voices Magazine examining the relationship between law and cyberspace

Reasonable Restrictions and Unreasonable Speech

Published in Sarai Reader 04: Crisis Media

Cinematic citizenship and the illegal city

First Published in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. This paper examines some of the questions that could emerge from the relationship between Law and Cinema. While there has been some scholarship on law and cinema, most of it has largely focused on the formal properties of film, and not moved beyond the question of representation. This paper argues that for a fruitful enquiry to emerge, we would need to have an understanding of the complex relationship between the spatial implication of cinema, practices of groups like fan clubs, the question of changing technologies of cinema and how they relate to issues of citizenship and modernity. Finally, it argues for a more nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of non-legal media circulation or piracy in the contemporary and links this to the question of citizenship and globalization.

The Public Is Watching: Sex, Laws and Videotape

A monograph by Lawrence Liang, Mayur Suresh and Namita Malhotra on Censorship and cinema in india

Legal Status of Community Radio in India

This note was written at at a time when the government did not have a CR policy, and it has subsequently adopted a CR policy

Of Lumpen Laws and Eggshell Democracies

Article written after the arrest of Chandramohan, MS University Baroda under Sec. 153A of the IPS

Sense and Censorbility

Lead Essay by Lawrence Liang in Art India (Special issue on Censorship)

And nothing but the truth, so help me science

An examination of the philosophical and historical basis of truth detection technologies by Lawrence Liang

Censorship and the Law

An Article by Siddharth Narrain on the Dramatic Performances Act

The World Wide Web of Desire

Namita Malhotra examines pornography on the internet and the politics of content regulation

Broadcasting Law in India: A Backgrounder

This backgrounder (1) is compiled by Siddharth Narrain (2), with contributions from Rohan Saha and Nikhila Reddy, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. And inputs from Ammu Joseph A detailed examination of the existing legal framework that applies to various broadcast technologies currently in use in India