Commentaries by Aryan Yashpal

The Self-Censorship of Indian Media

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The Self-Censorship of Indian Media

June 22, 2020 08:19:48 pm

The conundrum that India’s media has found itself in during the pandemic has been nothing unusual. India’s mainstream media has been mired in distrust for a large part of this decade. The fledgling state of the media has been a limited focus since the World Press Freedom Index has rated India lower in 2020 than [...]

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