South Central Ep 15 | Union govt threatens TN over language policy, Vikatan and media censorship

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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