The Union government is withholding education funds from Tamil Nadu over its refusal to implement the three-language policy. Is this really about language, or is it about control over states? Vikatan’s website was abruptly blocked days after BJP leaders attacked its cartoon on Modi. With independent media under pressure, is digital censorship the next frontier?
Hosts Dhanya Rajendran, Pooja Prasanna, and Leena Reghunath are joined by TNM’s executive editor Sudipto Mondal and senior journalist K Venkataramanan to break it all down.
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Audio Timecodes
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:27 – TNM’s 11th Birthday
00:04:34 – Headlines
00:09:07 – Union Govt vs TN
00:38:23 - Rohith Act
00:44:21 - Vikatan, BeerBiceps & Digital Censorship
01:04:30 – Recommendations
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