When a Norwegian journalist asked India's prime minister about press freedom, the resulting furore illuminated something far larger than a diplomatic spat On a bright morning in Oslo, a journalist did her job. Heli Ling, a Norwegian reporter with accreditation and a press pass, posed a question to a visiting head of state. The question was not polite. It was not intended to be. It touched on human rights, on press freedom, on the condition of journalists in a country of 1.5 billion people. Within hours, she had lost her social media accounts. Her home address had been published online. She was being called an "anti-India spy." She was not troubled. "A small price to pay," she said. Which is, in its way, the most troubling thing of all. That an accredited journalist in a stable Nordic democracy should consider organised harassment, digital erasure and coordinated doxxing a reasonable professional risk tells the observer something important. Not about Ms Lin...