India bucks global trend with massive newspaper growth

Print media may be losing ground to digital in the West, but there’s one country in Asia where newspapers have seen a 60% surge in circulation, writes Shashi Tharoor    

AROUND the world, newspapers are facing challenges as a mass exodus to the internet causes their circulation to slump and their advertising revenue to collapse. But not in India.

In the West, young people have largely dispensed with the home- delivered physical morning newspaper, and instead catch up on the news whenever they choose, using tablets, laptops, or mobile phones.