India regulates its media through a patchwork of statutes, rules and executive circulars, most of them written for a specific technology and a specific era. Print, cinema, cable and satellite broadcasting, and the internet each answer to a different ministry and a different set of standards. This paper argues that such fragmentation cannot hold up in a converged media landscape, where the same story can run in a newspaper, on television and across social media within minutes, yet face separate legal tests depending on where it appears. Working from a doctrinal method, the paper traces how Indian media law developed historically, maps the present regulatory landscape, and examines how Article 19(1)(a) grounds press freedom constitutionally. It then turns to the practical fallout of fragmentation regulatory arbitrage, inconsistent standards, weak enforcement, jurisdictional overlap, and public confusion before assessing recent moves toward consolidation, including the Telecommunications Act 2023, the draft Broadcasting Services (Regulation) Bill, and the Press and Registration of Periodicals Act 2023. The paper also draws briefly on the United Kingdom’s Ofcom model to show how converged audio-visual regulation can operate through a more coherent institutional structure. It argues that India should move toward a single, technology-neutral media law enacted by Parliament, administered by an independent regulator with specialised divisions for print, film, broadcast, and digital media. Such a framework should preserve existing expertise, create a unified grievance mechanism, apply standards by type of harm rather than by platform, and permit phased implementation to avoid regulatory disruption. The paper concludes that a unified media law is both achievable and necessary, provided it contains express safeguards for editorial independence, proportionality, and free expression under Article 19(1)(a).