India: Two viewpoints

In: Index on censorship, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 21-25

Abstract

Two leading Indian journalists, Mr Tushar Kanti Ghosh and Mr C. R. Irani, published their views on the restrictions of India's press freedom in the CPU Quarterly. Mr Ghosh is the Editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika and, at 77, still active in international newspaper affairs. A former chairman of the Press Trust of India and past president of the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society and the All-India Newspaper Editors Conference, he was head of the Indian section of the CPU for almost 20 years. Mr Irani, managing director of The Statesman and, like Mr Ghosh, a former leading official of the Press Trust of India and the Indian and Eastern Newspaper Society, was one of the first top journalists to raise his voice against government moves to regulate and dominate the press. Below, we reprint the two articles in full.