After India's independence from the British Rule in 1947, the nation has relied on newspapers to get their daily dose of information. This trust is in part because of the media's significant influence on India's freedom movement and its role as a gatekeeper of the public interest and protector of democracy.
However, in recent times, people in the country are forgetting the real job of the press: reporting the truth. After years of being the voice that brought social change, the media is now being controlled and manipulated by authorities who have attempted to kill stories that hurt their reputation.

Press freedom has been eroding in India over the past five years.
The current media situation seems to harken back to how it was at the time of the 1975 to 1977 "internal disturbance," when the exercises of the press were controlled. Back then, strict orders were imposed on the media houses, resulting in the abandonment of press freedom.

"Today's media, under either threat, luring or manipulations, is not only crawling but is happily licking the 'boots' of the present regime and wagging their tails to appease their 'masters' by overzealous publicizing government's narratives." said Apurva Trivedi, a journalist in India who has been working in the field for over 19 years. "Not only owners but most of the journalists have towed the line, either as a survival instinct or willingly. And that is the beginning of the end of journalism which used to be in India and which ought to be in India," he added.