Backstory: The Kashmir Model to Discipline Indian Media
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
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Rights13/Feb/2021
âIf democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from usâ¦What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over oneâs own life and authorship of oneâs own experience.â
~ Shoshana Zuboff,
The Age Of Surveillance Capitalism
What is striking about recent developments in India is the manner in which the media, both legacy and social, have become entangled with the politics of the day. In fact, they have become the site upon which politics plays out.