Moronic Inferno featuring Pankaj Mishra
In the build-up to the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, a number of foreign news outlets had written scathingly about India, and especially it’s PM Narendra Modi. Aatish Tasseer’s “Divider in Chief” cover for Time, More...
Political Humbuggery, The New York Times, and Indian Shills
Is this possible too – that cow urine can tantalize the taste-buds of the readers of the venerable New York Times? It seems so, especially if it is garnished with generous doses of phrases like the “Hindu More...
Sonia Falerio’s Sleight of Hand in the New York Times
In June this year, the New York Times carried an opinion piece by Sonia Faleiro titled ‘Saving the Cows, Starving the Children‘. As is typical of op-eds and opinions in the NYT or The Guardian about India More...
Dear Heather Timmons: Duh!
Many people have said many things about Modi@one, both positive and negative, about what he has accomplished, and whether they are disappointed in him or happy or whatever. Most of this was predictable, depending More...
Dear New York Times: Look into your own backyard first
On 8 October, the New York Times published what can only be called a motivated piece declaring that the BJP government will use education to promote the ideology of Hindutva. Like most cases, this piece is a classic More...
Tunku Varadarajan’s Idolatory
India’s self-proclaimed secular intellectuals and mediapersons make the best use of every opportunity to deride Hinduism. Neither is this specific to India alone. Those secular writers who migrate out take their More...
Muslims in Gujarat Poorer: NYT
Assertion: In its editorial on 26 October 2013, the New York Times makes the following claim: [Narendra Modi's] economic record in Gujarat is not entirely admirable, either. Muslims in Gujarat, for instance, More...
New York Times' Misleading Claims about Hinduism
Assertion: In an article in the New York Times’ blogs on India, writer Raksha Kumar makes the following claims: Mr. Kujur and his family converted to Hinduism seven years ago. As a member of the Oraon More...
Muzaffarnagar Riots and Modi: Gardiner Harris
Assertion: Gardiner Harris, the South Asia Correspondent of the New York Times, in an article on Narendra Modi's anointment as the BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate makes a series of patently false More...