In current times, Robin Jeffery’s detailed study of India’s print media, entitled India’s Newspaper Revolution (2009), found no Dalit representation in the newsroom and on the editorial board of 300 media decision-makers. Similarly, Washington Post South Asia bureau chief Kenneth Cooper had discovered back in 1996 that over 4000 Indian newspapers published in 100 languages hardly had India’s lower castes, mostly Dalits, represented. ‘Not one daily newspaper has made speaking on their behalf its role,’ Cooper commented, drawing from his experience of reporting from India for over two decades.
