{"id":71481,"date":"2025-05-04T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/04\/they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modi-india"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T05:00:02","slug":"they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modis-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71481","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They threatened to bulldoze my house\u2019: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi\u2019s India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons\u2019 control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country\u2019s democracy<\/p>\n<p>At her home in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Harleen Kapoor* reflects with melancholy on how, since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, she has spent a lot of time in the office instead of out on the powerful human rights expos\u00e9s she used to work on.<\/p>\n<p>Stories from some of the most deprived areas in the country were her forte. But, she says, in the climate of fear that has built up in India in the past decade, her media outlet has made it clear that her reports on topics such as sexual violence against lower-caste women and the harassment of Muslims are no longer welcome.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/ng-interactive\/2025\/may\/04\/they-threatened-to-bulldoze-my-house-fear-and-violence-stalk-journalists-in-modi-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons\u2019 control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country\u2019s democracyAt her home in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Harleen Kapoor* reflects with melancholy on how, sinc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"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":[458,457,59,62,669,238,433,672,61,42,3299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-freedom-of-speech","category-global-development","category-india","category-journalist-safety","category-media","category-narendra-modi","category-newspapers-magazines","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-world-press-freedom-day-2025"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71481","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71481\/revisions\/71482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}