Over the weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with President Biden at the G-20 summit in New Delhi. But there have been some folks noticeably absent from the leaders’ huge assembly: the press.

Growing restrictions on the press in India have change into a regarding pattern for many individuals contained in the nation. And final 12 months’s takeover of tv information channel NDTV by India’s richest man and shut ally of prime minister Modi, grew to become a turning level for perceptions of the nation’s press freedom.

Today on “Post Reports,” South Asia correspondent Karishma Mehrotra tells us what it’s wish to be a journalist in India underneath the Modi authorities, what’s behind this shift in Indian journalism and what the implications are for India’s future. We additionally communicate with former TV information anchor Ravish Kumar on his struggles as a journalist within the nation.