The press freedom in India and the contribution of journalists to develop democracy in the nation with the highest population have been praised by a high-ranking US official.
Donald Lu, the US's Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, said "There is nothing that's kept secret there. You have India as a democracy in part because you have a free press that really works. I know the media market is changing. But I have such respect for the freedom of the press in India," in Washington.
Lu emphasized the importance of journalists and the work they perform to uphold democracy in India.
“I can remember going into MEA (Ministry of External Affairs) once and seeing a senior person with files stacked up to the ceiling because he was processing a Right for Information request. And he was complaining bitterly about having to do this and I could only laugh because we have to do the same thing in our bureaucracy where if someone asks for a document, I have to spend several days finding the document for them because that's what democracy does,” he added.
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