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Let’s begin by acknowledging the absurdity of an Indian writer’s position today. The category by now includes editors who  commission reporters and/or writers to write on specific subjects. Both sides periodically feel apologetic and somewhat sheepish about the vocation. But here we are. The President of the most powerful country in the world tells our Prime Minister that he is luckier than the former, in that he has a ‘good’ (read silent) media. He himself has been heard using expletives against his freer and non-compliant media when he is asked uncomfortable questions in pressers. 

Where do we look to find a benchmark for free speech? The united Europe where the writers and the media still enjoy freedom of speech is fast unravelling. Economies in Asia and Africa have yet to overcome the shock of the Strait of Hormuz being closed and opened abruptly. 

The question old legacy media in such an age are most frequently asked is, where is your earlier optimism about the world? Is it fair to sound perennially negative and doubtful about the ruling party and their core concept of India as a Hindu Rashtra? Questions about large scale defections from regional parties into the ruling party, the razing of hill ecology and water scarcity if and when they are raised, by party spokes, have the sly eagerness of a spoilt brat who is asking for public views knowing full well how and why the questionable deeds were done. 

Another question asked frequently is why does the liberal faction in the media not accept that multi culturalism has failed and the target henceforth for all patriots must be one nation, one flag, one language........

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