A Thought Box for the Thinking Indian | H R Venkatesh | TEDxEicherSchool

A talk which touches upon Free Speech is titled, “A ThoughtBox for the Thinking Indian” And include about Polarised Times, Reasonable Dialogue, and Six Principles of free speech. Venkatesh is a journalist who runs NetaData.in, an independent, non-partisan service focusing on Indian politics and policy. He is a Chevening scholarship holder at the University of Oxford, where he earned a Master’s degree in contemporary Indian studies in 2010. This year, he is also a Tow-Knight Fellow at the Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism in New York. Just prior to this, Venkatesh was Editor, The Quint and Director of Communications at Change.org India. For 9 years, he was a Senior Anchor at CNN-IBN. He has covered politics, crime, business and sports as a journalist. Venkatesh lives in New Delhi, but is from Bangalore. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx