While we welcome the government’s decision to withdraw the GST officers’ power to arrest an important question must be asked. In whose eternal lack of wisdom was this power granted in the first place? And that too in a government promising ease-of-doing-business and de-criminalising old laws on an industrial scale.
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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