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...
Time to Hold India’s Media Legally Accountable
This is an excerpt from one of my books titled, ‘Orissa in the Crossfire – Kandhamal Burning.’ This is the same book that the Indian Parliamentarian and Congress Party leader Digvijaya Singh demanded be More...
And the Evil lives on…with help from NDTV
The first time I saw the interview here I was aghast. Just reading whose interview it was made me cringe. Why are we giving hardened criminals so much space? Completely unnecessary, needless and worst of all, heartless. More...
Shirin Dalvi shame: Jinhe naaz hai secularism par wo kahaan hain
Shirin Dalvi, who was the Mumbai bureau chief of the Urdu daily Avadhnama till two weeks ago, has lost her job and is being prosecuted by the authorities and persecuted by her own community. Her crime? On 17 January, More...
TRUTH ABOUT KAMLA BENIWAL AND THE MEDIA SPIN
There is an unseemly clamour and competition among several prominent TV media anchors of NDTV and CNN-IBN among others, as well as prominent political analysts to whitewash the indefensible acts of malfeasance committed More...
Saint Sonia and saintly lies
Former Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist Natwar Singh’s book and his interactions with journalists have once again exposed the lie that that Sonia Gandhi made a great sacrifice in 2004 when she offered the prime minister’s More...
MEDIA WILL SUPPORT YOU ONLY IF YOU’RE MUSLIM
A few days before the force-feeding controversy erupted, The Dawn of Pakistan had carried a news story highlighting the plight of Hindus over there. It described in detail the problems Hindus face in a village near More...
Muslim intolerance raises its head in Saharanpur
The gist of the conversations going on on my Twitter timeline is that if you live in a Muslim-majority area you need to carefully mind how you religiously conduct yourself. Even if you don’t live in a Muslim-majority More...
BBC hosts sculptor who calls Narendra Modi a mass murderer
On 17 May 2014 on the BBC’s #Newsnight show that discussed Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s stupendous election victory in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Indian sculptor Anish More...
Indian democracy needs no lessons from the Economist
First, the world’s largest democracy needs no backing of anybody except the Indian voters, let alone a foreign rag named “The Economist.” For all we know, this rag’s footprint across the world cannot beat More...