NEW DELHI, July 26 -- Surveillance by an international agency is anti-national and a threat to democracy, said Paranjay Guha Thakurta, senior journalist, author and film-maker, whose name figures in the recent Pegasus espionage list, while speaking to Manoj Varghese of Indian Currents. He has been vocal in raising the issue at different platforms and has strongly condemned the Income Tax raids on selective media houses.
Q. When did you come to know that you are under surveillance?
A. One Sandhya Ravishankar from Chennai, who exposed several sand mining mafias, had approached me in the month of March this year hinting that as a part of larger conspiracy my phone is being taped. Later, two journalists from Forbiden Stories (Paris), Phineas...