Global Media Watch

[A_Gupta]

> One of those:
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The kind of stuff they publish:
https://www.himalmag.com/politics/india ... eace-trade

Picked up by other outlets, where you can read it without registering.

https://thewire.in/south-asia/modi-coul ... istan-ties

[Tanaji]

They are trying to be different by showing an inverted map of Asia The rest is regurgitated trap you see in these type of organisations.. I wouldnt even call it a think tank as there is no thinking here..

[A_Gupta]

Good podcast - Smita Prakash and Shashi Shekar
EP-165 | Exposing Global Media's 'Bias' on Modi & India with Shashi Shekhar
https://youtu.be/Yyrioxqv6CE?si=fNaBz-m6Oet5pJpc

[Lisa]

For those who may not have been following the Jaffrelot Christophe saga, a permanent pox in this world who is profoundly Hinduphobic and pro peaceful. He criticises the freedom of expression in India and at the same time has refused to release the recording of the incident below, read all

https://twitter.com/ajitdatta/status/17 ... 9312382125

Wrote

"Ok folks, another update on the
@sanjeevsanyal
-
@jaffrelotc
debate, the footage of which Sciences Po has been withholding from the public domain.

I was wondering what it was about Sanjeev's content that irked them so much and prevented them from releasing the video. So I decided to find out.

Apparently, there was one argument that Sanjeev made during the debate which seems to have rubbed some people, especially Jaffrelot, the wrong way. Note that this was a debate about the recent efforts to rewrite history in India. Essentially, Sanjeev conducted a little thought experiment. He reminded his audience of France's Vichy regime, an independent French government that the Nazi occupiers had propped up to rule France in their stead. Sanjeev asked his audience to imagine if the Vichy regime had lasted for a few decades, and had rewritten French history with the intention of establishing their own legitimacy. Then he told his audience that this is pretty much what happened in India - the brutal occupiers propped up an independent Indian government of collaborators, which went on to last for decades and peddled its own version of Indian history.

The audience was stunned with this analogy, because it completely destroyed the way the entire debate had been framed. Most of them realised that the recent efforts to rewrite history were in fact a course correction.

There are many reasons why this might have irked Jaffrelot and his ilk. For one, Jaffrelot and his ilk have made careers perpetuating the collaborator version of Indian history. What good are institutions like Sciences Po if they cannot even serve as a platform for Western narratives about former Western colonies? But is there more than what meets the eye here? Perhaps something about the Vichy regime that made some people in the room very uncomfortable? We'll find out soon."

[sanjaykumar]

It seems some people are waking up and smelling the coffee.


If it’s accountability from Muslims today, what’s to keep Hinduans from…….

[Haresh]

With India’s election in full swing, Narendra Modi is getting desperate – and dangerous

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... m-rhetoric

[Cyrano]

In sab ki phati padi hai ! Salil bhai NRI dikh rahen hai, PIO card hai toh maza ayega !!

[sanjayc]

^^ Very cleverly, all these rabid leftist portals and publications have removed comment section from under their articles. These charlatans like to provide alternative voices, not hear them. Readers can keep their views to themselves, thank you.

[Haresh]

and the campaign continues...

Indian separatists plotted to kill Sir Winston Churchill during pre-war tour of the United States, newly uncovered papers reveal

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eveal.html

[Haresh]

and the atrocity narrative continues. Strange if you Google "gruesome child murders by parents in usa" similar sorts of things come up !!
Building up the narrative, those beastly Indians

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... India.html

[sanjayc]

^^ Yes. The reason for hatred of Indians by Whites is religious ("those beastly heathens with beastly religion"). This cannot be cured as long as they remain indoctrinated by the Abrahamic cult, with hatred of non-believers at its core. These are juvenile, mentally stunted people following a juvenile religion based on blind belief and indoctrination into a fairy tale that cannot be proven by anyone. It stays in circulation because they catch their kids young (when they cannot think for themselves) and indoctrinate them early. The moment we make a law that only those above 18 years old can be instructed about religion, just see the kind of belly laugh the Abrahamic cults get from adults when introduced to their "philosophy" for the first time. Their trick is to catch the kids early for indoctrination when they don't have the capacity to think. That is how they perpetuate themselves.

[sanjaykumar]

A lot of it is due to religious indoctrination. Also explains the fear and loathing especially reserved for communism.

The issue will be how can a heathen culture flourish, much as post Bolshevik Russia or more recently China? This is deeply subversive to a certain set of gods, it undermines their authority and convenants.

Again, Japan’s history of xenophobia can be illuminating. I expect to see a renouncing of cults by Indian converts. Just as I expect to witness a wholesale adoption of more subtle forms of heathery.

[Haresh]

Shocking moment elderly woman is knocked over by a reversing car on a leafy street in London's 'Little India'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... India.html

[sanman]

Washington Post Staff win 3 Pulitzer Prizes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/ ... er-prizes/

One of them was a finalist for the following:

The staff of The Washington Post was a finalist in the International Reporting category for “Rising India, Toxic Tech,” its series uncovering Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Hindu nationalist allies’ vast, often covert, effort to use technology to advance their political objectives. The Post’s reporting also revealed how major American technology companies, including Facebook and X, have increasingly bent to the Indian government’s orders to censor materials on their platforms.

[A_Gupta]

Reuters:
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/ind ... 024-05-09/

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is criss-crossing India in a marathon election campaign but, for the first time since 1996, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not contesting in Kashmir, where a 35-year uprising against Indian rule has killed tens of thousands of people.
...
...
Analysts and opposition parties say the BJP decided to skip contesting the election because the outcome is likely to contradict Modi's narrative of a peaceful, more integrated Kashmir since he removed the region's semi-autonomous status in 2019 and brought it under New Delhi's control.