Politics
Turning politics into theatre
Tweets by an international pop star [https://twitter.com/rihanna/status/1356625889602199552]—five words, one hashtag, a linked article—and a teenage climate activist [https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1356694884615340037] on India's farmer protests have rattled thin-skinned Indians. What an irony: A citizenry perennially subjected to state-sponsored propaganda is tweeting
How interlinked economic and political forces create self-censorship in Indian media
Most contemporary discussions on press freedom begin with some sort of rankings: X country slipped Y positions on Z index—that’s evidence something wrong is happening. This makes headlines every year in India, as we continue to slip down in these indices. Criminal defamation cases are filed against journalists
