The equipment carried by that scribe have been replaced by the latest electronic note-books, mikes, recorders and END units. The cuneiform script has transformed into the latest from Microsoft. The proximity to the ruling elite continues. The counting, telling, recounting, sending and writing, still form part of his duties. Only the times have changed.
Challenges are the same.
The Indian newspapers, who fought British imperialism, probably had transitional problems when freedom dawned. In the euphoria of independence, they probably chose to be allies initially. Fifty years hence, as I speak to you today, I feel, we still seem to be having the same predicament. Well, the press has been a watch-dog of our hard earned freedom. We have succeeded in exposing, corruption in high places and to some extent cleansing the Augean stables.