[1] 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.

Pahwa believed this to be a worrying development as TRAI's judgements tended to come down on the side of the phone companies.

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.