Mahavir Narwal’s Covid death without seeing daughter, Pinjra Tod’s Natasha, is another aching reminder that India cannot throw people in jail indefinitely. Good of Delhi HC to let Natasha attend last rites, but the human cost of apathy toward undertrials, many booked under trumped-up UAPA charges, is unconscionable in pandemic.
Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram
Why news media is in crisis & How you can fix it
India needs free, fair, non-hyphenated and questioning journalism even more as it faces multiple crises.
But the news media is in a crisis of its own. There have been brutal layoffs and pay-cuts. The best of journalism is shrinking, yielding to crude prime-time spectacle.
ThePrint has the finest young reporters, columnists and editors working for it. Sustaining journalism of this quality needs smart and thinking people like you to pay for it. Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here.