Media group caught in self-censorship; the bitter battle for Karnataka; sex, lies and Osho; and more

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story ['We Cannot Get a Call from Amit Shah': Media Group Caught in Self-Censorship Vice]( Karnika Kohli [Has Vice global taken a conscious decision to pursue only politically 'safe' stories given that its plan for launching a TV channel in India has to pass the gauntlet of official licensing? Senior staff at Vice India learnt this the hard way when corporate bosses, citing fears of litigation and violence, shot down a story on an ABVP activist who is gay.]( [BJP's Bipolar Behaviour and the Shroud of Secrecy Around the 1962 War]( Sonia Trikha Shukla [After years of clamouring to make the records of the 1962 India-China war public, why is the BJP attempting to bury the Henderson Brooks-Bhagat report now?]( [The Bitter Battle for Karnataka Has Begun]( Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta [A combination of sharp political moves by Siddaramaiah has left the BJP without any welfarist agenda, forcing it to rely on Hindutva and 'market-driven development'.]( [Seven Years Since the Fukushima Disaster, Is It Case Closed?]( Franck Guarnieri, Mines ParisTech [Calling Fukushima a “made in Japan” disaster focuses attention on the failures of a socio-technical system apparently disconnected from industry good practices and the norms of the IAEA.]( [Stuck Between Market, Family and State: Empower Surrogates Themselves]( Prabha Kotiswaran [Through the years, India's stand on surrogacy has varied from a medico-liberal to a carceral model, but the best safeguards for surrogates would be empowerment rather than relying on the market or the state for protection.]( [BJP Leader Selling Kashmir Human Shield T-Shirt Says There's No Stopping Sales]( The Wire Staff ["Dar can file 100 more cases, but we will not stop selling Major Gogoi T-shirt," BJP spokesperson Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga said.]( [Sex, Lies and Osho: The Terror and Beauty of Netflix's 'Wild Wild Country']( Tanul Thakur [The six-part series examines the clash of cultures – the fear of the ‘other’ – in fine detail.]( Copyright © 2018 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](