Since the shock announcement on August 4 that India's most powerful politician Sonia Gandhi was to undergo surgery in the United States, barely a word has leaked out about her health.
The silence in most of the Indian media about the 64-year-old's condition and the refusal of the ruling Congress party to divulge information has raised some uncomfortable questions about transparency in the world's biggest democracy.
The independence of the media and the country's openness - it passed a Right to Information Act in 2005 - are a source of national pride, often contrasted with conditions in secretive regimes elsewhere
'I was really shocked to see in regular Congress party briefings, the present there did not seek information, did not demand information,' the editor of the Business Standard Sanjaya
The silence in most of the Indian media about the 64-year-old's condition and the refusal of the ruling Congress party to divulge information has raised some uncomfortable questions about transparency in the world's biggest democracy.
The independence of the media and the country's openness - it passed a Right to Information Act in 2005 - are a source of national pride, often contrasted with conditions in secretive regimes elsewhere
'I was really shocked to see in regular Congress party briefings, the present there did not seek information, did not demand information,' the editor of the Business Standard Sanjaya
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