{{Short description|2019 non-fiction book}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}} {{Infobox book | name = The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture And The Nation | author = [[Ravish Kumar]] | language = English | country = India | published = 27 February 2018 | publisher = [[Speaking Tiger Books]] | isbn = 9389231191 | image = The Free Voice- On Democracy, Culture And The Nation.jpeg | caption = First edition | translators = Chitra Padmanabhan, Anurag Basnet, Ravi Singh<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation |url=https://caravanmagazine.in/bookshelf/the-free-voice-on-democracy-culture-and-the-nation |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=The Caravan |language=en}}</ref> }} '''''The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture And The Nation''''' is a non-fiction book written by [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]]-winning journalist [[Ravish Kumar]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Raman|first=Anuradha|date=2018-04-07|title=The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation review: Looking through glass|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/the-free-voice-on-democracy-culture-and-the-nation-review-looking-through-glass/article23465517.ece|access-date=2021-09-09|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> on India's democracy and its backsliding under [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Narendra Modi]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ramani|first=Priya|title=Ravish Kumar's book is required reading for every Indian who stays silent against hate and bigotry|url=https://scroll.in/article/877556/ravish-kumars-book-is-required-reading-for-every-indian-who-stays-silent-against-hate-and-bigotry|access-date=2021-09-09|website=Scroll.in|date=2 May 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Review: Democracy and Debate in the Time of 'IT Cell'|url=https://thewire.in/books/ravish-kumar-book|access-date=2021-09-09|website=The Wire}}</ref>{{Efn|Sources describing that [[India]] has experienced a [[Democratic backsliding|backslide in democracy]]:<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Brunkert|first1=Lennart|last2=Kruse|first2=Stefan|last3=Welzel|first3=Christian|date=3 April 2019|title=A tale of culture-bound regime evolution: the centennial democratic trend and its recent reversal|url=http://fox.leuphana.de/portal/de/publications/a-tale-of-culturebound-regime-evolution-the-centennial-democratic-trend-and-its-recent-reversal(2b6baaf4-3942-4491-92ca-55782d455a62).html|journal=Democratization|volume=26|issue=3|pages=422–443|doi=10.1080/13510347.2018.1542430|s2cid=148625260|issn=1351-0347|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite journal|last=Khaitan|first=Tarunabh|date=26 May 2020|title=Killing a Constitution with a Thousand Cuts: Executive Aggrandizement and Party-state Fusion in India|url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/lehr/14/1/article-p49.xml|journal=Law & Ethics of Human Rights|language=en|volume=14|issue=1|pages=49–95|doi=10.1515/lehr-2020-2009|s2cid=221083830|issn=2194-6531|hdl=11343/241852|hdl-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|last=Ganguly|first=Sumit|title=India's Democracy Is Under Threat|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/18/indias-democracy-is-under-threat/|date=18 September 2020|access-date=27 November 2020|website=[[Foreign Policy]]|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=2021|title=India: Freedom in the World 2021 Country Report|url=https://freedomhouse.org/country/india/freedom-world/2021|journal=[[Freedom House]]|volume=|pages=|via=|quote=While India is a multiparty democracy, the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has presided over discriminatory policies and increased violence affecting the Muslim population. The constitution guarantees civil liberties including freedom of expression and freedom of religion, but harassment of journalists, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and other government critics has increased significantly under Modi.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|first1=Vindu|last1=Goel|first2=Jeffrey|last2=Gettleman|date=2 April 2020|title=Under Modi, India's Press Is Not So Free Anymore|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-press-media.html|access-date=9 March 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>}}.
A revised and updated edition was released in August 2019 with a new Introduction, and two additional essays examining the developments since the [[2019 Indian general election]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Free Voice - Speaking Tiger Books |url=https://speakingtigerbooks.com/product/the-free-voice/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230617172845/https://speakingtigerbooks.com/product/the-free-voice/ |archive-date=17 Jun 2023 |access-date=17 June 2023 |website=Speaking Tiger Books}}</ref>
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