Jul 10, 2021
What is most worrying is that the lines between genuine criticism in the media and sedition are also getting blurred. So those reporters who risked their lives to bring back stories of uncounted Covid deaths and pictures of bodies piling up along the banks of the Ganga were accused of maligning India’s name through ‘vulture journalism’. BJP trolls on Twitter routinely accuse them these days of not being patriotic and of being part of a conspiracy against India. All of this serves to weaken India’s democracy.
Tavleen Singh, ‘Protest is not terrorism’, Indian Express
