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Investigative Journalist Pays the Price for an Expose in India

Saba Shah Khan

   For much of the 20th century, India's government wielded great power
   over journalists. Most media were state controlled, foreign media were
   blocked, and freedom of the press was curtailed.

   In the late 1990s, however, as India began to modernize, journalism
   flourished. Controls were lifted, and TV news networks multiplied.
   For investigative journalist [1]Rana Ayyub, it was a blossoming of
   press freedom -- and one that she worries will not last.
   Ayyub is best known for her book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Coverup,
   an undercover investigation into the 2002 riots in India's Gujarat
   province that killed more than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims. Narendra
   Modi, now India's prime minister, was then the top official in Gujarat.

References

   1. https://time.com/5617161/india-religious-hate-crimes-modi

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