Penguin Random House India does it again. It keeps creating a false impression of an atmosphere of fear across India. Whatever its anxieties over Joe Sacco’s ‘The Once and Future Riot’ or Sonia Gandhi’s ‘Belonging’, Penguin cannot project its cowardice onto India. Another foreign publisher, HarperCollins, has exposed Penguin’s timidity.
In 2017, Shekhar Gupta started ThePrint with a simple belief: Indian readers want journalism that asks why and what next, not just what. And that enough of them would be willing to pay for good journalism.
Nine years on, that belief has held.
And, in these nine years, we’ve stayed true to our mission. We’ve been asking the follow-up questions, going beyond the headlines and explaining what’s actually happening. We’ve travelled across the country to bring you in-depth, visually-compelling stories from the ground.
It’s been nine years of readers choosing to make this possible. If you’d like to be one of them:
