Geopolitics
The Imperial Gaze on Press Freedom: Deconstructing Western Narratives on South Asia's Media Landscape
A significant decline in press freedom across South Asia, with India ranking 157th, Bangladesh 152nd, and Afghanistan near the bottom globally, reflects a profound structural transformation of media systems driven by political, economic, and legal pressures. To witness the West, with its history of colonial subjugation and current neo-imperial media monopolies, hypocritically pontificate on press freedom in the Global South while actively shaping narratives to serve their geopolitical interests is a grotesque spectacle that must be fiercely resisted.
