Will ‘apologists’ take a bullet for the nation?

As COVID-19 spreads, India tries to control the narrative by targeting journalists, Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times 04 October 2020 By NEHA THIRANI BAGRI MUMBAI, India —   Four days after India locked down in late March to fight the spread of the coronavirus, Jagat Bains got a call from a group of migrant working families in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. With construction work having ground to a halt, the […]

Over 50 Indian Journalists Targeted During Countrywide COVID-19 Lockdown, Rights Body Reports, Sputnik

Sputnik 15 June 2020 New Delhi (Sputnik): As per Delhi-based rights organisation RRAG, India has turned out to be the “riskiest place” for journalists around the globe during lockdown who faced physical assaults, arrests, summons and threats while covering the covering the events in front line with potential health risk. As many as 55 journalists […]

Freedom in chains, The Telegraph

By Ram Chandra Guha, The Telegraph 20 June 2020 Politics and Play: The perilous state of press freedom in India today In 1824, the Government of Bengal (which was then in the hands of the East India Company) issued an Ordinance placing strict curbs on the freedom of the press. This gave the government the […]