Salamat Ali, in Far Eastern Economic Review (July 18, 1985), G.P.O. Box 160, Hong Kong.
The press in India, among the world's largest and oldest, is also one of the most troubled. Though "free" Third World standards, it is plagued by continual conflict with India's government.
The Indian public can turn to more than 19,000 newspapers and maga- zines, with a total circulation of roughly 51 million. Although no truly "national" newspaper exists, many of the nine major English-language...