{"id":63537,"date":"2024-04-23T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/apr\/23\/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government"},"modified":"2024-04-23T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:33:49","slug":"reporting-in-india-too-difficult-under-modi-says-departing-australian-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63537","title":{"rendered":"Reporting in India \u2018too difficult\u2019 under Modi, says departing Australian journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC\u2019s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to \u2018feel so uncomfortable\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2024\/apr\/23\/australia-news-live-albanese-future-made-wakeley-bondi-stabbing-esafety-twitter-elon-musk-supermarkets-png-papua-kokoda\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The south-Asia correspondent for Australia\u2019s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/messianic-spell-how-narendra-modi-created-a-cult-personality\">in the country under Narendra Modi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dias, who has been based in Delhi for the ABC since January 2022, said she felt the government had made it \u201ctoo difficult\u201d for her to continue to do her job, claiming it blocked her from accessing events, issued takedown notices to YouTube for her news stories, and then refused her a standard visa renewal.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed\">Sign up for Guardian Australia\u2019s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/apr\/23\/abc-south-asia-correspondent-avani-dias-narendra-modi-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC\u2019s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to \u2018feel so uncomfortable\u2019Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1631,681,62,433,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian-broadcasting-corporation","category-australian-media","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63538,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63537\/revisions\/63538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}