The surprise election result in India leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi without much voter support and at the head of a complicated coalition. Will this new setup loosen the screws on the Indian media and give it room to reinvest in journalism instead of the adulation that dominated the airwaves for much of the last decade?
Collaborators:
Nishtha Gautam – Columnist, NDTV
Sreenivasan Jain – Host, The India Report
Mukul Kesavan – Historian and novelist
Fatima Khan – Journalist, The Quint
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Feature Contributors:
Jehad Abusalim – Writer
