Press freedom is in crisis in the "world's largest democracy" with attacks against journalists, concentration of media ownership, pro-government bias and expulsions of foreign reporters. Since India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, several mainstream Indian TV channels have effectively turned into government mouthpieces.
In India, more than 400 TV news channels are competing for a share of one of the world’s largest markets. Their number and diversity could be synonymous with freedom, plurality and impartiality. Instead, the threat to press freedom has never been so great. In the "world's largest democracy", a section of the media has opted for total and unconditional support for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – the far-right Hindu nationalist party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
