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	[[File:Nikhil Pahwa.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Nikhil Pahwa at Asia Liberty Forum 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.]]		[[File:Nikhil Pahwa.jpg\|thumb\|200px\|right\|Nikhil Pahwa at Asia Liberty Forum 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.]]
	'''Nikhil Pahwa''' is an Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of [[MediaNama]], a mobile and digital news portal.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Venugopal\|first1=Vasudha\|title=File-sharing site blocking flags up internet freedom\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/filesharing-site-blocking-flags-up-internet-freedom/article2311321.ece\|accessdate=24 April 2015\|publisher=The Hindu\|date=6 June 2013}}</ref> He has been a key commentator on stories and debates around Indian digital media companies, censorship and Internet and mobile regulation in India. He is the founder of 'Save the Internet' that was instrumental in successfully opposing [[Facebook]]'s [[Free Basics]] programme in India on the basis that it limited competition and violated [[net neutrality]].<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Burgess\|first1=Matt\|title=A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian 'web warrior' who took on Facebook and won\|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-web-warrior-nikil-pahwa\|accessdate=13 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Helft\|first1=Miguel\|title=Meet The Man Who Derailed Facebook's Plan To Provide Free Internet In India\|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2016/02/25/meet-the-man-who-derailed-facebooks-plan-to-provide-free-internet-in-india/\|work=Forbes\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news\|last1=Bhatia\|first1=Rahul\|title=The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback {{!}} Rahul Bhatia\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-free-basics-india-zuckerberg\|work=The Guardian\|date=12 May 2016}}</ref> Pahwa, along with some volunteers of 'Save the Internet' founded the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=About the Internet Freedom Foundation\|url=https://internetfreedom.in/about/\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Internet Freedom Foundation}}</ref> Pahwa resigned from the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web~~\|title=https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1041540063031521281~~\|url=https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1041540063031521281\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Twitter\|language=en}}</ref>		'''Nikhil Pahwa''' is an Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of [[MediaNama]], a mobile and digital news portal.<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Venugopal\|first1=Vasudha\|title=File-sharing site blocking flags up internet freedom\|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/filesharing-site-blocking-flags-up-internet-freedom/article2311321.ece\|accessdate=24 April 2015\|publisher=The Hindu\|date=6 June 2013}}</ref> He has been a key commentator on stories and debates around Indian digital media companies, censorship and Internet and mobile regulation in India. He is the founder of 'Save the Internet' that was instrumental in successfully opposing [[Facebook]]'s [[Free Basics]] programme in India on the basis that it limited competition and violated [[net neutrality]].<ref>{{cite news\|last1=Burgess\|first1=Matt\|title=A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian 'web warrior' who took on Facebook and won\|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-web-warrior-nikil-pahwa\|accessdate=13 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|last1=Helft\|first1=Miguel\|title=Meet The Man Who Derailed Facebook's Plan To Provide Free Internet In India\|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2016/02/25/meet-the-man-who-derailed-facebooks-plan-to-provide-free-internet-in-india/\|work=Forbes\|language=en}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news\|last1=Bhatia\|first1=Rahul\|title=The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback {{!}} Rahul Bhatia\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-free-basics-india-zuckerberg\|work=The Guardian\|date=12 May 2016}}</ref> Pahwa, along with some volunteers of 'Save the Internet' founded the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=About the Internet Freedom Foundation\|url=https://internetfreedom.in/about/\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Internet Freedom Foundation}}</ref> Pahwa resigned from the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1041540063031521281\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Twitter\|language=en}}</ref>

	Pahwa was earlier the editor of ContentSutra, which was acquired by the Guardian Media Group.<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite news\|last1=Schonfeld\|first1=Eric\|title=Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.\|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/05/bad-karma-at-contentsutra-site-sputters-after-being-bought-by-the-guardian/\|accessdate=24 April 2015\|publisher=TechCrunch\|date=5 October 2008}}</ref> He was named one of India Today Magazine's "Indians of Tomorrow" in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Indians of Tomorrow\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/indians-of-tomorrow-368873-2012-12-13\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> a [[TED (conference)\|TED]] fellow in 2016,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows\|url=https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-2016-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows/\|website=TED Blog\|date=8 December 2015}}</ref> and an Asia21 Young Leader in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Class of 2019\|url=https://asiasociety.org/asia21-young-leaders/class-2019\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Asia Society\|language=en}}</ref>		Pahwa was earlier the editor of ContentSutra, which was acquired by the Guardian Media Group.<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite news\|last1=Schonfeld\|first1=Eric\|title=Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.\|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/05/bad-karma-at-contentsutra-site-sputters-after-being-bought-by-the-guardian/\|accessdate=24 April 2015\|publisher=TechCrunch\|date=5 October 2008}}</ref> He was named one of India Today Magazine's "Indians of Tomorrow" in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Indians of Tomorrow\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/indians-of-tomorrow-368873-2012-12-13\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=India Today\|language=en}}</ref> a [[TED (conference)\|TED]] fellow in 2016,<ref>{{cite web\|title=Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows\|url=https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-2016-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows/\|website=TED Blog\|date=8 December 2015}}</ref> and an Asia21 Young Leader in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Class of 2019\|url=https://asiasociety.org/asia21-young-leaders/class-2019\|access-date=2020-12-04\|website=Asia Society\|language=en}}</ref>
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[[File:Nikhil Pahwa.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Nikhil Pahwa at Asia Liberty Forum 2019 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.]]
'''Nikhil Pahwa''' is an Indian journalist, digital rights activist, and founder of [[MediaNama]], a mobile and digital news portal.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Venugopal|first1=Vasudha|title=File-sharing site blocking flags up internet freedom|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/internet/filesharing-site-blocking-flags-up-internet-freedom/article2311321.ece|accessdate=24 April 2015|publisher=The Hindu|date=6 June 2013}}</ref> He has been a key commentator on stories and debates around Indian digital media companies, censorship and Internet and mobile regulation in India. He is the founder of 'Save the Internet' that was instrumental in successfully opposing [[Facebook]]'s [[Free Basics]] programme in India on the basis that it limited competition and violated [[net neutrality]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Burgess|first1=Matt|title=A real-life David and Goliath: the Indian 'web warrior' who took on Facebook and won|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/india-web-warrior-nikil-pahwa|accessdate=13 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Helft|first1=Miguel|title=Meet The Man Who Derailed Facebook's Plan To Provide Free Internet In India|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft/2016/02/25/meet-the-man-who-derailed-facebooks-plan-to-provide-free-internet-in-india/|work=Forbes|language=en}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news|last1=Bhatia|first1=Rahul|title=The inside story of Facebook’s biggest setback {{!}} Rahul Bhatia|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/12/facebook-free-basics-india-zuckerberg|work=The Guardian|date=12 May 2016}}</ref> Pahwa, along with some volunteers of 'Save the Internet' founded the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Internet Freedom Foundation|url=https://internetfreedom.in/about/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Internet Freedom Foundation}}</ref> Pahwa resigned from the Internet Freedom Foundation in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|title=https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1041540063031521281|url=https://twitter.com/nixxin/status/1041540063031521281|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref>

Pahwa was earlier the editor of ContentSutra, which was acquired by the Guardian Media Group.<ref name="techcrunch">{{cite news|last1=Schonfeld|first1=Eric|title=Bad Karma At contentSutra. Site Sputters After Being Bought By The Guardian.|url=https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/05/bad-karma-at-contentsutra-site-sputters-after-being-bought-by-the-guardian/|accessdate=24 April 2015|publisher=TechCrunch|date=5 October 2008}}</ref> He was named one of India Today Magazine's "Indians of Tomorrow" in 2012,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Indians of Tomorrow|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/photo/indians-of-tomorrow-368873-2012-12-13|access-date=2020-12-04|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref> a [[TED (conference)|TED]] fellow in 2016,<ref>{{cite web|title=Meet the 2016 class of TED Fellows and Senior Fellows|url=https://blog.ted.com/meet-the-2016-class-of-ted-fellows-and-senior-fellows/|website=TED Blog|date=8 December 2015}}</ref> and an Asia21 Young Leader in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Class of 2019|url=https://asiasociety.org/asia21-young-leaders/class-2019|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Asia Society|language=en}}</ref>

==Medianama==
After working at ContentSutra for two years, Nikhil Pahwa founded MediaNama on 27 June 2008.<ref name="techcrunch" /> The portal provides news and analysis of the digital and telecom businesses of India.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Medianama|url=https://www.medianama.com/about/|website=www.medianama.com|accessdate=17 October 2017}}</ref> It also monitors the digital policies set by the government of India.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Smartt|first1=Ursula|title=Media & Entertainment Law|date=2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781317334613|page=109|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IDolDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109|language=en}}</ref>

==Activism==
When the Indian government invited comments on net neutrality in 2014, Nikhil Pahwa was a notable activist in the debate which helped the government reach a decision in favour of net neutrality.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mahurkar|first1=Uday|title=Marching with a Billion: Analysing Narendra Modi’s Government at Midterm|date=2017|publisher=Random House Publishers India Pvt. Limited|isbn=9789386495846|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJ4kDwAAQBAJ|language=en}}</ref> Later that year, when Facebook announced its plans of launching a service to provide free Internet access to selected sites and apps on the Internet, Pahwa was one of its most vocal critics and, being a "respected voice in the field", he was invited for a discussion with Facebook executives. In 2015, after Facebook nevertheless launched its [[Free Basics]] programme in partnership with [[Reliance Mobile]], a major telecom company, the [[Telecom Regulatory Authority of India]] (TRAI) invited public comments on a ruling on net neutrality. Pahwa believed this to be a worrying development as TRAI's judgements tended to come down on the side of the phone companies. He believed that only a grassroots campaign would save net neutrality and contacted coders, lawyers, and policy wonks to form a movement dubbed, ''Save the Internet''. A website, savetheinternet.in, was launched on 11 April which allowed visitors to easily make submissions to TRAI with their answers to the 20 questions posed by TRAI on net neutrality. The movement took off when a video by the comedy group, [[All India Bakchod]], explaining net neutrality to the viewer directed the public to make their submissions via savetheinternet.in. By 24 April, 1.1 million Indians had e-mailed the regulator not to license or sanction plans such as Free Basics that violated net neutrality.<ref name="guardian" /><ref name="Soni">{{cite news|last1=Soni|first1=Aayush|title=How people power took on big business in the fight for net neutrality in India|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/25/india-net-neutrality-people-power|accessdate=17 October 2017|work=The Guardian|date=25 May 2015}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Net neutrality in India]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://nikhilpahwa.com Homepage]
* [https://www.medianama.com/author/nikhil/ Profile on Medianama]
* [https://internetfreedom.in Internet Freedom Foundation]
* [https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/author/nikhil-pahwa/ Times of India blog]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw6Q0d1Xwvc&t=669 Google talk by Pahwa]

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