If Indian media could be fully purchased, no government would have any problems

The last Indian politician to send journalists to jail, most notably [but not solely] Kuldip Nayar of Ramnath Goenka's Indian Express, was Mrs Indira Gandhi. Her reason was an Emergency she imposed upon India in 1975 to preserve her power. In the subsequent 1977 general elections, Indian voters showed precisely what they thought of such dictatorship when they threw Congress out of power. This went a long way to protect press freedom from potential censors.

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