[pavanred]

How about freedom of press as an example (World Press Freedom Index)

2018: 138

2017: 136

2016: 133

A good rule to follow, formulate an opinion after you gain enough facts to argue the other side, else you'll keep seeing only what you want to see.

[vthallam]

You can't pick one index to your convenience and even then, I have looked at the website - https://rsf.org/en/india which I think is your basis of the rankings.

Their headline was > Deadly threat from Modi’s nationalism

Scaremonger much? I don't buy the fact that in the Internet age, you have to be some reporter to write against the government policies. If someone has any groundbreaking evidence against anything wrong the government is doing, all it takes is one youtube video anonymously.

They rank the United States at 46, the United Arab Emirates at 128(better than India) and India at 138. Seriously? There has been a mention of 3 isolated incidents against journalists who were affected. All these are criminal incidents where the police have started investigating, just like the thousands of criminal incidents against ordinary Indians.

There has never been a prime minister who was hated this much by an Opposition and god forbid there will never be. I really hope the opposition in India talks about development than scaring ordinary citizens, after 4 years of peace, you can't scare them.

[pavanred]

> I don't buy the fact that in the Internet age, you have to be some reporter to write against the government policies.

We don't need reporters anymore because we have the internet? :)

I won't engage further. You're free to believe what you want, but here's what I would like to say - You can interpret the current situation however you want, but others might disagree. And, anyone that disagrees with you or criticizes the govt, isn't necessarily the opposition or the enemy. - The govt is not a victim of opposition's hate, opposition and press are free to and supposed to criticize the govt, and they always have.

[thevardanian]

India has been in a downward trend in terms of freedom of press since 2011. Unfortunately.

Rather than being prentious and accuse others of being half asses, or ignorant, I suggest you only stick to facts as you claim you do.

I am most definitely not denying that everything is perfect. There are things that have gotten worse, however the benefits of what have gotten better are far more tangible, real, and affect daily life than this one data point you provided. There are others which are more tangible that India has faultered on, but again the good far outweighs the bad.