CHAPTER 20
Space and Atomic Energy Reporting
Pallava Bagla
CHAPTER INSIGHTS
Reporting on strategic sectors such as space, defence and atomic energy needs sensitivity and deep insights. Strategic technology reporting needs a very special attention, where national security needs have to be balanced with what can be conveyed to the Indian public and to keep the enemy at tenterhooks. Space, defence and atomic energy are all sectors where India has done well but reporting these requires special skills, and one has to tiptoe around the Lakshman Rekha. Too little information does not excite the public and too much makes the enemy know more than that is necessary. Having reported in this sector for the last two decades, the author mentions that it ...
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