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Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Politics
- News Reports
  
  Rajasthan: Day after Sachin Pilot called Ashok Gehlot ‘his leader’, Congress forms committee to resolve grievances between the two
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2020
  
  Day after Sachin Pilot hailed Ashok Gehlot as 'his leader' Congress decides to form a committee to sort out grievances.
  
  Media
  
  Not satire: Shashi Tharoor and Barkha Dutt hold a serious discussion over PM Modi’s “communal” beard
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2020
  
  In all seriousness Shashi Tharoor and Barkha Dutt are discussing the length of PM Modi's beard and how it looks 'communal'.
  
  Politics
  
  Naach na jaane aangan tedha: Now Shashi Tharoor refuses to accept Rahul Gandhi could lose one more poll
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2020
  
  Shashi Tharoor quoted a Twitter poll with just 7,716 votes, ran by a Congress functionary, to claim Congress should be voted to power
  
  Politics
  
  Pilot flies back to home turf? After weeks of political drama, Sachin Pilot says Ashok Gehlot is his leader
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2020
  
  Rebel Congress MLA Sachin Pilot has bent the knee before Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and accepted him as his leader.
  
  News Reports
  
  Shah Faesal steps down as president of political party he founded, could return to administrative services
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2020
  
  Shah Faesal has stepped down as the president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement (JKPM).
Opinions
- Political History of India
  
  The international links of Indian Communists: How India’s communists betrayed the nation
  
  Nivan Sadh - 10 August, 2020
  
  The Communist Party of India is one of the most controversial political parties in the country. Founded in 1925, CPI is alleged to have been directly involved in several anti-national activities since its inception.
  
  Opinions
  
  People who think govt control of temples will rid them of inter-jati conflict assume that a pro-Hindu govt will always be in power
  
  Guest Author - 10 August, 2020
  
  Viewing it through the single lenses of govt control, though, does not do justice to the various other aspects of society within which these temples are situated
  
  Opinions
  
  Indians, how they get ‘secularism’ so horribly wrong and how the atmosphere changed after Islam and Christianity entered India
  
  Maria Wirth - 10 August, 2020
  
  Indians are generally highly intelligent. Yet when it comes to secularism, most intellectuals, media and politicians get the concept wrong, so wrong that it looks as if Indians were purposely fed wrong information.
  
  Media
  
  Times of India publishes response by Police to their article on Delhi Riots as ‘letter to editor’: How TOI is deceiving its readers
  
  Editorial Desk - 10 August, 2020
  
  It was only a few days ago when Delhi Police had written a scathing response to an editorial published by the Times of India that questioned the Delhi Police over its handling of the Delhi Riots.
  
  Political History of India
  
  The ‘Revolutionary Poet’ and the ‘Great Scholar’: Behind the veils of the Dravidian Delusion
  
  zeneraalstuff - 8 August, 2020
  
  One of the persistent pieces of given wisdom in Indian political discourse is that the Dravidian movement was a progressive one.
Fact-Check
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  Media
  
  PTI spreads another fake news, misquotes PM Modi on coronavirus cases in India
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2020
  
  Prime Minister Modi said that the percentage of active cases of coronavirus cases in India has come down and the recovery rate has come up.
  
  News Reports
  
  Rajasthan: Muslim auto driver was thrashed by drunk miscreants for tobacco and money, communal angle not confirmed by police
  
  OpIndia Staff - 9 August, 2020
  
  Muslim Auto driver in Rajasthan was thrashed for looting him, not for not chanting Jai Sri Ram as alleged, confirms police
  
  Social Media Fact-Check
  
  Senior lawyer K Parasaran who fought Ram Mandir case is not on Twitter, colleagues clarify after fake account gets followers
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 August, 2020
  
  One of those heroes who rose to the challenge and was instrumental in the reclamation of Ram Janmabhoomi is 93-year-old K Parasaran, who successfully led the legal fight of Hindus
  
  Media Fact-Check
  
  Is ED violating its guidelines by registering money laundering case in connection with SSR’s death? Here’s how NDTV journalists peddled fake news
  
  OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2020
  
  The Enforcement Directorate has recently lodged a case of money laundering in connection with the alleged suicide of Sushant Singh Rajput.
Media
- Media
  
  PTI spreads another fake news, misquotes PM Modi on coronavirus cases in India
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2020
  
  Prime Minister Modi said that the percentage of active cases of coronavirus cases in India has come down and the recovery rate has come up.
  
  Media
  
  Not satire: Shashi Tharoor and Barkha Dutt hold a serious discussion over PM Modi’s “communal” beard
  
  OpIndia Staff - 11 August, 2020
  
  In all seriousness Shashi Tharoor and Barkha Dutt are discussing the length of PM Modi's beard and how it looks 'communal'.
  
  Politics
  
  The 2005 interview of Rahul Gandhi, which embarrassed the party so much that it was declared fake and Tarun Tejpal was asked to kill...
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 10 August, 2020
  
  In an interview to Zee TV, Vijay Simha had detailed how his interview of Rahul Gandhi in 2005, for the Tehalka magazine was killed after Tarun Tejpal was possibly pressured by the Congress party and its senior politicians.
  
  Media
  
  Times of India publishes response by Police to their article on Delhi Riots as ‘letter to editor’: How TOI is deceiving its readers
  
  Editorial Desk - 10 August, 2020
  
  It was only a few days ago when Delhi Police had written a scathing response to an editorial published by the Times of India that questioned the Delhi Police over its handling of the Delhi Riots.
  
  Media
  
  Rahul Gandhi loses even in Twitter poll by India Today
  
  OpIndia Staff - 10 August, 2020
  
  Amusingly, India Today's other poll also binned Rahul Gandhi and his monologues which the media house tried to pass off as criticism.
Variety
- All Books Culture and History Satire
  
  Opinions
  
  People who think govt control of temples will rid them of inter-jati conflict assume that a pro-Hindu govt will always be in power
  
  Guest Author - 10 August, 2020
  
  Viewing it through the single lenses of govt control, though, does not do justice to the various other aspects of society within which these temples are situated
  
  Opinions
  
  Indians, how they get ‘secularism’ so horribly wrong and how the atmosphere changed after Islam and Christianity entered India
  
  Maria Wirth - 10 August, 2020
  
  Indians are generally highly intelligent. Yet when it comes to secularism, most intellectuals, media and politicians get the concept wrong, so wrong that it looks as if Indians were purposely fed wrong information.
  
  News Reports
  
  Rajiv Gandhi did not want Ram Mandir dispute to be settled, withdrew support after Chandra Shekhar had resolved the age-old issue: Claims upcoming book
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 August, 2020
  
  Rajiv Gandhi did not want Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute to be resolved as he did not want Chandra Shekhar to take credit for the same
  
  News Reports
  
  ‘Kashi Mathura Baki Hai’: Krishna Janmabhoomi Nirman Nyas set up in Mathura, 80 sadhus from 14 states named as members
  
  OpIndia Staff - 7 August, 2020
  
  The original Keshavnath Temple was destroyed by Aurangzeb and the Shahi Idgah Mosque was built on its plinth.
Specials
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  OpIndia Scoops
  
  ‘Aaj Dekh Lenge Hinduon ko’: The tale of Faizal Farooqui, Rajdhani and DRP school and what Chargesheet number 1 says
  
  Nupur J Sharma - 3 August, 2020
  
  The Delhi Police and the Special Cell have filed numerous chargesheets in the Delhi riots that pertain to several different incidents of violence that led to carnage and destruction over a period of the two days.
  
  News Reports
  
  Had it been Pakistan, would have taken her from your house: The full story of what happened when Nazmul kidnapped Dinesh’s daughter at gunpoint
  
  Jhankar Mohta - 31 July, 2020
  
  A minor girl was abducted on gunpoint while she was returning from the market with her father. The alleged incident took place on July 26 in Begusarai’s Bhikan Chak village that falls under Bachhwara police station.
  
  OpIndia Explains
  
  The saga of Wikipedia bias continues: ‘Jai Shri Ram is a war cry’
  
  OpIndia Staff - 31 July, 2020
  
  The Wikipedia page of the sacred chant 'Jai Shri Ram' has been distorted to paint a completely ant-Hindu picture and call the chant a war cry
  
  Political History of India
  
  The Nanoor Massacre: When CPI(M) workers slaughtered 11 landless labourers and then blamed ‘evil’ landlords for their crimes
  
  OpIndia Staff - 28 July, 2020
  
  The Nanoor Massacre occurred on the 27th of July, 2000 in the Birbhum District of West Bengal. 11 labourers lost their lives.
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