Livestreaming the execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan Malik is an unimaginable slide into the dark ages for America. Public executions are a shameful spectre in Taliban’s Afghanistan and Ayatollah’s Iran. American democracy prides itself on rule of law and rights for even death row convicts. This is medieval.
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.
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