India media:

Indian media—initiated since the late 1700s with print media started in 1780, radio broadcasting initiated in 1927, and the screening of Auguste and Louis Lumière moving pictures in Bombay initiated during the July of 1895 —is among the oldest and largest media of the world.[1] Indian media—private media in particular—has been free and independent throughout most of its history.[2] The period of Emergency in India (1975–1977), declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was the brief period when India's media was faced with potential government retribution.[2][3]

India consumed 99 million newspaper copies as of 2007—making it the second largest market in the world for newspapers.[4] By 2008, India has a total of 60,000,000 Internet users—comprising 6.0% of the country's population,[5] and 4,010,000 people in India also have access to broadband Internet as of 2008— making it the 18th largest country in the world in terms of broadband Internet users.[6] India also ranks 8th in the list of countries by number of television broadcast stations by 1997 statistics.[7]

Main articles: Information technology in India and Communications in India

The Indian Government acquired the EVS EM computers from the Soviet Union, which were used in large companies and research laboratories.[13] Tata Consultancy Services — established in 1968 by the Tata Group — were the country's largest software producers during the 1960s.[13] The 'microchip revolution' of the 1980s had convinced both Indira Gandhi and her successor Rajiv Gandhi that electronics and telecommunications were vital to India's growth and development.[14] MTNL underwent technological improvements.[14] Between 1986-1987, the Indian government embarked upon the creation of three wide-area computer networking schemes: INDONET (intended to serve the IBM mainframes in India), NICNET (the network for India's National Informatics Centre), and the academic research oriented Education and Research Network (ERNET).[15]