In a secular democracy, media turns a zealous fundraiser for Ram Temple
In a secular democracy, the mainstream media has become a zealous fundraiser for the construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. While it has often opposed the appearance of…
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How media’s narrative of ‘Lawlessness-in- Bengal’ aims at helping BJP
As the assembly elections near in West Bengal, the media is busy constructing and spreading a new narrative that the TMC Government under Mamta Banerjee has failed to maintain…
Media continues to malign Farmers’ Protests
Instead of listening to the grievances of the farmers and objectively reporting the concerns raised during more than half a month-long farmers’ demonstrations being held around the areas in…
Hindi Press demonizes farmers’ protest, brands them Khalistani terrorists
While the farmers continue to hold demonstrations near the national capital against the recently-enacted Farm Laws that have facilitated the entry of big corporate players in the agricultural sector, several…
Hindi Press popularizes anti-woman & anti-Muslim narrative of “Love-Jihad”
Several leading Hindi newspapers have brazenly mouthed the Hindutva narrative of anti-woman and anti-Muslim “Love-Jihad” conspiracy theory and justified the proposal of the BJP ruled state to come out…
Caste prejudice: Media claims voters’ memory of “Jungle Raj” cost RJD Bihar Polls 2020
The mainstream media has again shown its upper-caste character in analyzing the result of the Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. While it has hailed “the Modi magic” for helping the NDA…
Muslims, terrorism, Pakistan – not development – were key issues for BJP in Bihar Polls 2020
The BJP leaders have failed to make development an electoral plank in the recently held Bihar Assembly Elections 2020. The Hindutva leaders, instead, have invoked Muslims, terrorism, and Pakistan in…
Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Media shows bias towards BJP
Several leading newspapers published from Patna appear biased in favour of BJP. In their coverage, they are giving a large share of space to the BJP. Their major focus is…
TRP racket: How media is reluctant to talk about its own corruption
The media, which holds the flag of uprightness, is now reluctant to talk about the dirt defacing its own image. The immediate context is the claim of Mumbai Police…
Babri demolition case: Media, upholding court verdict, chants ‘Jai Sri Ram’
Lord Rama, one of the major deities of Hinduism, was born at the very place of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya. The mosque was built after the “Muslim invaders” had…
Farm Bills: Media depicts opposition as unruly, toes government’s line
The Farm Bills - which pave the way for private companies to buy farmers’ produce and go for contract-farming- have been vigorously opposed by the opposition parties and the…
Busy celebrating Modi’s birthday, Media scants job protests and police crackdown
The youth of the country observed the 70th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘National Unemployment Day’ (Rashtriya Berozgari Diwas). The mainstream media, which was busy celebrating Modi’s birth…
Yechury, Yadav, Apoorvanand, Ghosh et al. named in Delhi riots: Media toes police line
The mainstream media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has reproduced the police version while covering the news related to the naming of opposition leaders, activists, scholars in a supplementary…
GDP contracts by 23.9%: Media blames Corona, but doesn’t dare question Government
The mainstream newspapers have given very little space to the story of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) shirking by the steepest ever 23.9 per cent that it deserves. In their reporting,…
Seven CMs decry assault on federalism: Media dismisses it as party politics
The mainstream media has diluted the concerns of seven chief ministers about an assault on federal structure, misuse of central agencies, financial injustice, etc. Instead, the entire media coverage has…
Tablighi Jamaat was made “scapegoat”: Media downplays Bombay High Court ruling
The mainstream media — particularly Hindi newspapers — has again concealed, underreported and suppressed the Bombay High Court ruling. In its Friday judgment, the High Court has said that Tablighi…
Media, covering PM Modi’s Independence Day Speech, turns hyper-nationalist
Several newspapers have struck a hyper-nationalist tone while covering Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day. The highlights of his speech,…
Media, instead of faulting PM Modi for Bhoomi pooja, chants Jai Shri Ram
The mainstream media — particularly Hindi newspapers — instead of critiquing the Prime Minister Narendra Modi for performing Bhoomi pooja (groundbreaking) of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, is chanting Jai Shri Ram. It…
DU Professor Hany Babu’s arrest: Media takes a blinkered view to the issue
The media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has taken a blinkered view to the arrest of Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil by National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Tuesday,…
Amid corona pandemic, media is busy celebrating Ram Temple construction
Last week the media – particularly Hindi newspapers – prominently covered the news of the construction work of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. At times it appeared that the…
Minority panel report, faulting police & BJP leaders for Delhi riots, gets a lukewarm media response
The mainstream media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has downplayed the news about the release of a fact-finding report by Delhi Minorities Commission on February Delhi riots, 2020. Releasing…
Media stoops to a new low: Vikash Dubey encounter is portrayed as “instant justice”
While covering the encounter of the gangster Vikas Dubey by Uttar Pradesh (UP) police, the mainstream Indian media – particularly Hindi newspapers – appears to have condoned the extra-judicial killing.…
Modi’s visit to Leh: Media uses the occasion to sing his praises
Amid India-China border standoff, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a “surprise” visit to Leh and indirectly referred to China by saying that “the era of expansionism is over”.…
Indo-China Skirmish: Media Fires at China but Opposition isn’t spared either
For the last few days the criticism of the Indian mainstream media — particularly the Hindi media — has been oscillating between China and the opposition parties. While earlier the…
Dip in Indo-Nepal ties: What media hasn’t done & what it can still do
With India Nepal relations entering a deep freeze, a section of Indian media, particularly Hindi, has turned ultra-nationalist, uncritically toeing the establishment’s line. Ever since Nepal opposed India laying…
Charge sheet against activists makes news but human rights concern doesn’t
Do you know that the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights has written a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, expressing deep concern about the arrest of activists and intellectuals…
Tablighi Jamaat and mainstream media: What makes news and what doesn’t!
Just a week after the nation-wide lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 24, Tablighi Jamaat, a twentieth-century reformist Muslim organisation, was blamed for spreading coronavirus. The…
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