Analysing majoritarian radicalisation and social media in India

November 27, 2018 15:57

As part of the ORF Occasional Paper series, Maya Mirchandani, former journalist with NDTV and a senior fellow at ORF, analyses the intersections between free speech and hate speech and the impact of majoritarian hate speech in the Indian context, and asks whether government agencies and individuals working to counter terrorism and violent extremism in India can bring majoritarian violence of this nature under their umbrella. You can read her scholarly work, here.

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