Mammoth India' s newspapers, news agencies

A learned friend of mine on the other side of the Causeway has just told me that there are more than 40,000 newspapers and 40 domestic news agencies in India and that English is only one of the more than 100 languages normally used to dissseminate news and to articulate public opinions by the very free, vibrant and competitive media in the second most populous country on earth for its 1.12 billion people.

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