In my book The Great Indian Dream, I hadu00a0 stated that democracy in a capitalist economy tends to become an illusion since one of the biggest forces of a democracy is the media; and in a capitalist world, the media is mostly owned by private profiteers who promote news that will increase their profits, or those of its key stakeholders.

Add to this the fact that governments themselves are non-democratic when it comes to protecting the image they want to propagate ufffd like in the Julian Assange case ufffd and resolve to extremes like murder and all kinds of illegal arrests to stop the media from functioning freely. The communities which have been at the receiving end, are the investigative journalists and whistle blowers, who have perpetually struggled to bring facts to the forefront!u00a0

For example, American journalist Daniel Pearl had uncovered secrets about the involvement of Pakistan's ISI with Islamic extremists and the next news of him people got was his video, getting beheaded in Pakistan, being circulated on internet.

Musa Khankhel, reporter for The News International and GEO TV, who was kidnapped and later found dead, was reportedly working on a series of public events addressed by senior cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad in Pakistan. In 2004, Paul Klebnikov, working for Forbes, was attacked and shot in Moscow. Even the Forbes' Russian edition acknowledged that the murder was "definitely linked to his professional activity". According to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, more than 70 media persons had been killed while covering the Iraq war between 2003 and 2005.