Acche Din for Economic and Political Weekly
From now onwards, a large section of the media in India could well be perceived to be a little less independent or, for that matter trustworthy. Pranjoy Guha Thakurta, 14 June 2014, EPW As far as advertising More...
Is India Becoming a Nation of Porn and Prostitutes?
Teacher: Girl, who is your role model’? Girl: Ma’am, Indrani Mukharjee! Teacher: (Shocked) ! Why? Girl: See Ma’am, Abdul Kalam passed away, no debate. Sania won Wimbledon, 10 minutes coverage. More...
Drishyam or How Secular Media Creates an Alternate Reality
“Rajasthan Civic Polls: BJP loses face in Raje’s bastion of Jhalawar, Dholpur,” the headlines screamed a week ago as the results of the civic body elections were declared in Rajasthan. The BJP won convincingly, More...
Untangling the Vyapam Scam Web
Note: This was contributed by the blogger Frustrated Indian. Follow the writer on Twitter @unsubtledesi. The Vyapam Scam is one of the biggest scams plaguing Madhya Pradesh for decades. It involved a major racket More...
Media Canards of Military Coup
John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, respectfully referred to as the ‘Dean of His Profession’, said during his farewell speech in 1953, “There is no such thing, at this date of More...
Jagendra Singh or the murder of Journalism
‘The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism’ said More...
Mainstream media reportage of temple attacks: Analysis
Of late there has been a spate of news reports, articles, panel discussions and editorials on attacks on Churches in India. Most of these reports etc have been consistent in blaming Hindu groups for these attacks. More...
Dealing with the English Media
It is the considered opinion of those to the right of centre (RofC) – the full spectrum from just to the right to what is called the looney fringe – that the mainstream media, particularly the English variety More...
Weekly Hindu Persecution Digest: 22 March-29 March 2015
1. Kaimur temple artefacts stolen Report: Three artefacts, including a silver canopy kept inside the sanctum sanctorum of the ancient Mundeshwari temple in Kaimur district, the oldest recorded Hindu temple in Bihar, More...
Media’s chronic hate-Hindu narrative thrives
Too many scare mongering articles on the so-called minorities are in the papers these days. It’s a known practice now – lie once and lie loud. Repeat that lie often using our secular-liberals as willing More...