The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
When the bias and prejudice is blatant and alignment so obvious then one needs to ask the questions that are apparent in that situation. It has been known for sometime that the Western media plays a role to create “Atrocity Literature” against the powers and people that the Western powers want to aim at. Rajiv Malhotra’s “Breaking India” describes that well enough.
As the elections draw near, Twitter has been interfering in the political debate in India with a clear and shamelessly provocative bias. Some days back Jagrati Shukla’s Twitter account was blocked for saying that in J&K, instead of using pellet guns the army should use real bullets. Which is how the police dealt with the followers of Ram Rahim when they went on a rampage after his arrest. And, what is good for folks in Chandigarh, should be good for folks in Srinagar. If the media was fine with the former, it should be fine with the latter. And, even in US the rioters would be treated the same way.
But many others – who are ore sympathetic to India’s PM Modi – have suddenly found that their number of followers fell by several thousands or having their accounts suddenly blocked! That cannot be a coincidence!
I am filling a complaint against @TwitterIndia for blocking my account. Freedom of speech is one of the most fundamental freedoms. Why I was restricted access ,why my human rights violated?#freedomofspeechforall
Hello @Twitter@TwitterIndia@twitter I had 18.2 followers in morning. My followers have been reduced to 12.9k. I have not used any fake promotion. Nor have I done anything unusual WHAT IS This going on? @misskaul@amritat
To which, Dr. Swamy wants to go ahead and make transparency of Twitter – which is so desperately missing in their culture – a formal clause!
The Twitter India management is now getting increasingly Left ideological and rigging probe. I might seek a transparency clause inserted into their contract with GOI.
And, on top of all this, Jack Dorsey goes and has one of those special friendly sessions with Rahul Gandhi – ostensibly in a bid to lend him some credibility!
Jack Dorsey, the Co Founder & CEO of Twitter dropped in to chat this morning. Twitter has grown into the most dominant “conversations” platform globally. Jack explained some of the steps being taken to keep those conversations healthy & to tackle the menace of fake news. @jackpic.twitter.com/TCkj6st4rl
On the other hand, a “venerable” journalistic institution – BBC – also throws its hat in the fray of prejudiced outreach to create further media-hyped content. They hold a Panel Discussion on #BeyondFakeNews and creates fake narrative of its own. AltNews has been started by a Modi Baiter and hater. It is clearly biased and prejudiced and needs to be treated for what it signifies – an Indian counterpart of AltRight Breitbart kind of media. But BBC was in a hurry to lend its own weight to give this ultra hyper Modi baiting site some credibility! WHY?
2. In 1st panel @AltNews presented themselves as Fake News Buster. My saying @OpIndia_com does for BJP what @AltNews does for Congress & Left–led to much outrage led by Swarà Bhasker, tho both Congress & AAP representatives openly admitted they rely on @AltNews to bust #FakeNews
3. Was taken to task by Swarà Bhasker for suggesting that being pro Congress she needs examine own party & ensure Congress doesn't spread fake news instead of simply demonizing BJP for it. She denied all connection with Congress. I had to express regret for having read her wrong
5. How much longer is Congress going to encash Akhlaq killing by "Gau Rakshaks" while remaining indifferent to scores of murders of policemen plus Gau Rakshaks by beef smuggling mafias? Sure, bad to demonise all Muslims but demonizing all Gau Rakshaks sign of being "progressive"?
The Indian public needs to understand what kind of games are being played. And these are not the way things have worked until now. But they do show how deep the rot is in media. Very few people have any sympathy for Donald Trump when he shouts Fake news for every outlet. But the way these media outlets are behaving – with a well planned and obvious prejudiced formula – one cannot ignore Trump’s words. Media does need to clean its own house!
More importantly, the foreign media should STOP doing a Russia on India in the 2019 elections. It cannot be allowed to interfere!
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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