Today is world press freedom day. India ranks 136 on the press freedom index, only marginally better than Pakistan which is at 139th place. This is utterly disgraceful for a country that likes to shout from the rooftop about its democratic credentials. So, it's quite hypocritical when the Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi wax eloquent on the necessity of a free and vibrant press, when he himself has never given any press conference in the three years he's been the prime minister of this country. He has never allowed himself to be subjected to the kind of hard questioning by the media which is fairly common in other advanced democracies in the world.