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The British press focused too much on negative stories about India, India’s High Commissioner in London Y.K. Sinha said at an event in Parliament in February this year. The issue is not limited to just the UK, India has received a lot on negative press internationally over the recent past. A media watch group Reporters Without Borders on July 4 expressed serious concern at what it called “an alarming deterioration in the working environment of journalists in India” and demanded that the government ensure the safety of journalists who are feeling threatened. The same group in May this year ranked India 138th in the world on the Press freedom index, only one rank above Pakistan. Earlier, in March a UN based report ranked India 133rd on the World Happiness Index, lower than Pakistan and China. And more recently, exactly two weeks ago Thomson Reuters declared that India is the most dangerous country for women in the world. Why? And what is the perception of the foreign media about India? That’s what we discuss on this edition of ‘The Big Picture’. Guests - Jeffrey Gettleman, South Asia Bureau Chief, The New York Times, Carole Dieterich, India Correspondent, RTL France Radio, S. Venkat Narayan, India Bureau Chief, The Island, Sri Lanka, Anchor - Frank Rausan Pereira