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With four journalists killed in connection with their work in 2020, India is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists trying to do their job properly. They are exposed to every kind of attack, including police violence against reporters, ambushes by political activists, and reprisals instigated by criminal groups or corrupt local officials. Ever since the general elections in the spring of 2019, won overwhelmingly by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, pressure has increased on the media to toe the Hindu nationalist government’s line. Indians who espouse Hindutva, the ideology that gave rise to radical right-wing Hindu nationalism, are trying to purge all manifestations of “anti-national” thought from the public debate. The coordinated hate campaigns waged on social networks against journalists who dare to speak or write about subjects that annoy Hindutva followers are terrifying and include calls for the journalists concerned to be murdered. The campaigns are particularly violent when the targets are women. Criminal prosecutions are meanwhile often used to gag journalists critical of the authorities, with some prosecutors invoking Section 124a of the penal code, under which “sedition” is punishable by life imprisonment. In 2020, the government took advantage of the coronavirus crisis to step up its control of news coverage by prosecuting journalists providing information at variance with the official position. The situation is still very worrying in Kashmir, where reporters are often harassed by police and paramilitaries and must cope with utterly Orwellian content regulations, and where media outlets are liable to be closed, as was the case with the valley’s leading daily, the Kashmir Times.

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2 hours ago, Phoenix456 said:

Indira gandhi is really a fool to publicly declare emergency....ilaa unofficial ga chesee pani

Aadadainaaaaa public ga chesindi..... veedilaaagaaaa xxxx laga behave seyyalaaaa...... malli desam kosam dharmam kosam antu blogs links testaaaru

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2 minutes ago, Uravakonda said:

Ante mounam ye better antav, ee uppar sodhi pakodi kante. noted. 

Thappu uncle hindutva medha western media interest quota lo oka 20 positions forward esuko:smug:

Also Maha lo journalists ni torture pettatam inko 5 positions anta 🤗

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9 hours ago, Rajakeeyam said:

Thappu uncle hindutva medha western media interest quota lo oka 20 positions forward esuko:smug:

Also Maha lo journalists ni torture pettatam inko 5 positions anta 🤗

Mee lekka prakaram, 117. Andaru 2013-14 lo ichina build up ki < 50 lo undali. Ala untundhi ane votes vesaru.

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