Countries clamping down on media houses

• Published date: 24 April 2024
• Publication title: Post

The world has already heard of how iconic Australian journalist, Julian Assange has been treated for “exposing” some “criminal” activities of various American government agencies

Assange has been treated as if he were the most murderous genocidal villain of this century. Only because he attempted to present the world with some truth-filled shenanigans of this “democratic, most-civilised, freedom-loving, liberal” country in the world.

India is presently in the midst of elections. Elections that somehow seem precipitous to a variety of issues, including if this could possibly be the last election ever, in a country that once was a beacon of shining light, the greatest hope to an international community, and still is colonising land, country and mind.

Simple third-grade writers like myself, do not have to be heard or heeded about the issue. Many of the liberal thinkers of the world have vouched that this is actually already happening.

Clearly, the manner in which the Indian government has clamped down on various...