Modi Regime’s Polarising Politics Both a Challenge and Opportunity for Alternative Media: MK Venu

MK Venu, Managing Editor and Co-Founder of The Wire, India’s prominent alternative news media portal, looks back at the 10 years of the portal’s existence in this freewheeling conversation with Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Editor of The AIDEM.

The conversation covers a wide range of topics including the historical context in which the Indian alternative media has grown and developed, including the challenges and opportunities provided by the Hindutva oriented political polarisation project and the direct attacks on free speech.Venu observes in the conversation that alternative media should continue to speak truth and enhance truth-speaking in spite of the severe forms of assaults it is facing not only from the government and its agencies, but also from sections of its supporters such as big business.

Watch the full interview here.