Media

Media is considered the fourth pillar of democracy. This section presents news and views about the state of Indian media.

Politics

Far Left propaganda website gives UPA 200 seats, 166 seats to NDA based on “projections”

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2019

As per the current predictions based on "past election results, current alliances and losses due to discontent with the Modi government", the NDA will win 166 seats while the UPA will end up with 200.

Media

‘Journalists’ now use the fall of the Left in Australia to console themselves and insinuate that Modi can meet the same fate

Jinit Jain - 19 May, 2019

Shekhar Gupta has hinged his argument that exit polls are untrustworthy based on the recent Australian elections, in which conservative coalition registered a victory against popular opinion and exit polls

Media

After Anjana Om Kashyap, now Shweta Singh calls out Rajdeep Sardesai’s bias among others

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2019

Sweta Singh has called out the blatant bias in the Left media and even Rajdeep Sardesai among others.

Media

Sensing a possible Modi victory, Rajdeep Sardesai proceeds to discredit his own channel’s Exit Poll even before it is aired

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2019

Sensing that PM Modi might just come back to power for a second term, he has proceeded to discredit his own channel's Exit Poll which is yet to be aired.

Media

Here is what may have triggered Rajdeep Sardesai’s own colleague slamming him for being a pliant journalist

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2019

Anjana Om Kashyap, one of the Editors of Aaj Tak who conducted that interview interestingly took to Twitter today to castigate what appears to be her colleague, Rajdeep Sardesai.

Media

MK Venu calls ‘aggressive’ chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ provocative in The Wire, justifies Mamata Banerjee’s reign of violence

Editorial Desk - 18 May, 2019

Propagandist MK Venu, in his recent article for The Wire, has defended, even justified, the great violence that Mamata Banerjee has unleashed in West Bengal in her bid to retain power in the state.

Fact-Check

Of Nationalism and Hindu history: When fiction writer Romila Thapar writes for racist NYT, the result is bound to be poppycock

K Bhattacharjee - 18 May, 2019

In an article for the 'failing' New York Times (as POTUS Trump calls it), Romila Thapar, academia and approved fake news peddler, spreads rather dubious canards about Hindu Nationalism and Hindu history

Politics

Out, damned liar: The Quint crawls in its interview of Rahul Gandhi. Here is what Raghav Bahl never bothered to ask

Nupur J Sharma - 18 May, 2019

Propaganda website The Quint, which is often caught lying and pandering to Rahul Gandhi, got the opportunity to interview Congress President Rahul Gandhi and they went out of their way to crawl

Political History of India

Gandhi letters auction: Gandhi’s son did not rape his daughter, but his sister-in-law, Tushar Gandhi had clarified in 2014

OpIndia Staff - 18 May, 2019

When these letters surfaced in 2014, Tushar Gandhi, the lineage of MK Gandhi had written a letter to the Media saying that the letter had been mistranslated

Fact-Check