ALEX PERRY is lucky. He is not an Indian, and he is not a Kashmiri. His harassment by the Foreigners Regional Registration Office, following his over-imaginative reporting in Time on the Prime Minister's health, is a picnic compared to what lesser media mortals in this land have to contend with. The good thing about the paranoid response of the Prime Minister's Office to his reporting is that it helped to raise the issue of press freedom again.

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