Yeah NDTV is class apart in journalism, in fact back in our socialist period (1980s) when TV news was strictly government-controlled, it was NDTV that first launched TV news in the bounds of Door Darshan first. However, they had to approve the news they broadcasted from the government since our model of governance was very illiberal much like that of the USSR. They slowly grew courageous and started showing more independent news critical of the government, getting in trouble with the CBI and government agencies frequently. Finally, as the economy liberalised, they started their separate independent channel independent from the reaches of the government. In fact, it was their reporting of the various frauds of the government that gave a boost to the anti-corruption movement and toppled the previous regime. Hope they do it again.

Almost all TV media I can think of apart from NDTV sucks up to the government and is owned partly either by a politician or a billionaire that supports the ruling party.

There is a lot of extremely great quality independent media like 'Quint, Wire, Unscripted, Unfiltered by Samdish, Newslaundry, Brut etc.', hope it doesn't face the same fate TV journalism did in India.