The early morning raids on October 3rd on the residences of nearly fifty journalists and employees associated with digital news portal NewsClick signalled an extremely sinister assault on India's critical media voices. The NewsClick raids. . .

It is ironic that even as Narendra PM Modi signed the G7 pledge to protect 'freedom of expression, opinion online and offline', and the PM condemned Emergency-era censorship, Mohammed Zubair was arrested on the pretext. . .