Home » English » The Decline, Transformation, and Restructuring of Journalism in India: 2014–2026 The Decline, Transformation, and Restructuring of Journalism in India: 2014–2026 Is the Indian press truly dead, or is it undergoing a violent, systemic mutation designed to serve corporate conglomerates over the public? Visualizing the collapse: Media layoffs, newsroom closures, and the alarming drop in India's press freedom. Between 2014 and 2026, the Indian news ecosystem witnessed one of the most astonishing paradoxes in modern economic history. The broader Media and Entertainment (M&E) sector exploded. According to the FICCI Press Release and the corresponding EY India Revolution in M&E Sector report , the industry achieved a massive valuation of ₹2.5 trillion (US$29.4 billion) in 2024 , and is actively projected to scale to ₹3.1 trillion by 2027. Yet, running entirely...

Are These the Most Fearless Humans on Planet Earth? While we complain about our Wi-Fi speeds and daily commutes, a husband-and-wife duo is operating on rotting limbs in the deep jungle—under the light of a simple battery torch. If you want to know what real heroism looks like, you need to step away from the manufactured outrage of mainstream media. The unscripted, terrifyingly beautiful reality of Hemalkasa will leave you entirely speechless. Prepare to have your entire perspective on life violently shifted. In 2008, Prakash Amte and his wife, Mandakini , were awarded the prestigious Magsaysay Award for their service to humanity. (Exactly twenty-three years after Prakash's father, the legendary Baba Amte, received the exact same honour.) Our national newspapers mostly carried brief, easily forgotten announcements. But it was Tehelka magazine (August 2009) that finally put Prakash Amte on the cover, revealing t...

Are Your Favorite TV Reporters Making This Embarrassing Mistake Every Single Day ? Do you trust everything you see on the evening news? What if the most basic terms used by top anchors and field reporters are actually completely wrong ? Welcome to one of the biggest, most quietly ignored scandals in the Indian media industry. If you thought Aap Ki Adalat being scripted was shocking, wait until you realize that national television channels don't even know basic English grammar. For ten years, I have been telling my students at Commits that a "quote" on television is referred to as a "sound bite" or simply a "bite." But I have noticed a terrifying trend: thousands of journalists — across both print and elite television networks — continuously write it as "byte." 🔥 A Confession from the Top A few months ago, I sent an email about this "bite vs. byte"...

India's SaaS story is no longer simply an extension of its IT-services legacy. Over the past decade, Indian-founded and India-based software companies have aggressively built products for customers around the world, creating a growing, dynamic ecosystem that spans horizontal software, vertical applications, developer tools, and increasingly, complex AI-enabled products. The size of this economic opportunity depends heavily on how “Indian SaaS” is fundamentally defined. Recent industry estimates place India’s SaaS revenue in the mid-teens of billions of dollars, although figures vary substantially depending on whether one measures pure-play cloud subscriptions or incorporates broader India-linked software revenues. What is far less disputed is the direction of travel. According to a 2024 forecast from 1Lattice and Sorin Investments, the Indian SaaS market could reach approximately $37 billion by 2028 , implying a remarkably high-growth trajectory. India's unique combinat...