| No Images? Click here  US President Donald Trump, in an apparent praise for the Indian media on Tuesday night, told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Indian contingent of reporters were the best that he had seen. Huffpost India's Rohini Chatterji explains why the Indian media should take this with a pinch of salt, and deeply retrospect about itself. A researcher who has extensively studied the effect of internet shutdowns, meanwhile, told Huffpost India in an interview that the sustained blackout in Kashmir could lead to an increase in violence. In happier news, filmmaker Zoya Akhtar spoke to Huffpost India's Ankur Pathak about how happy she was with Gully Boy being India's nominee to the Oscars. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept up his record of not speaking at press conferences on Tuesday night at a joint briefing, it’s Trump’s off-the-cuff comments about the Indian media that strike a more alarming note.When asked repeatedly by the Indian media contingent about “Pakistan-sponsored terrorism”, Trump turned to Modi and said, “You have great reporters, I wish I had reporters like this. You are doing better than anybody else. Where do you find these reporters? This is a great thing.”  In an interview to HuffPost India, Jan Rydzak spoke about the possible blowback from a sustained communication blackout in Kashmir, the threats internet shutdowns will pose to democracy in India and whether information control is the right approach to deter acts of terror. In other news…
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