Left to right: Akshay Yadav. Jagendra Singh. Umesh Rajput. Sumit Galhotra/ Committee to Protect Journalists.
In February this year, the Committee to Protect Journalists asked me to co-author a report on the dangers of being a journalist in India. CPJ is a New York City based non-profit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. Not only do they document the dangerous situations that journalists find themselves in, but assist some scribes financially as well.
For the past two decades the organisation tracked journalist killings in India and observed a curious pattern. Since 1992, 27 journalists were murdered with corruption and politics being identified as the two deadliest beats in the country.
