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Marathi newspaper apologizes for saying the bitter truth about Mother Teresa

Mayuresh Didolkar -
There were no widespread protests, so who pressurized the newspaper?
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News Reports

Meet Dr Manish Pandit, the maker of the Ishrat Conspiracy docudrama – On Media, Ishat and Firstpost

OpIndia Staff -
Dr. Pandit reveals all about the Ishrat Jahan docudrama and surrounding controversies.
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News Reports

Firstpost deletes Interview with maker of “The Ishrat Jahan Conspiracy”

OpIndia Staff -
An attempt to hide some matters?
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Fact-Check

The truth about “BJP MLA breaks horse’s leg on video” story

Editorial Desk -
Another hitjob by Indian media
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News Reports

Police detains man accused of forging RTI query to show anti-Muslim bias of Modi govt

OpIndia Staff -
Pushp Sharma, the controversial journalist earlier arrested for extortion, has been picked for questioning.
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Opinions

Money Talks and Walks – Even in the Virtual World of Twitter

Abhinav Agarwal -
Joining the dots of ideology
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Media

The nation wants to know where the buck has stopped on: RSS Shorts

Shefali Vaidya -
The scenes over RSS shorts
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Opinions

Did Ghulam Nabi Azad understand his own condemnation of Religious fundamentalism?

Manithan -
An analysis of what Ghulam Nabi Azad said
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News Reports

Bhak Stops Here: The news that made news – February 2016

Rahul Raj -
Analysis of top stories which of February
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Opinions

Why is “Nation-State” Important?

Nithin Ramakrishnan -
It is better to learn from history than to learn from experience
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Social Media

Twitter abuzz with speculations over Vijay Mallya’s connection with Aakar Patel

OpIndia Staff -
On Sunday night, Twitter discovered that Amnesty India's Aakar Patel was connected to Vijay Mallya.
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News Reports

Hatred for Sri Sri grows. Political parties and journalists are editing videos to spread rumors

OpIndia Staff -
Haters of Sri Sri are spreading rumors by editing videos and photos of the World Cultural Festival event
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News Reports

Explained – the Marital Rape law debate for the rest of us

Aditya (reviewero) -
The issue of marital rape, and why India is not ready to make it a criminal offense.
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News Reports

Vijay Mallya: Bad Loans Bail-out and how Air India was bled to death

OpIndia Staff -
A retelling of the scam
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News Reports

Meet the journalism student who almost lost his career for shouting anti-Barkha Dutt slogans

Editorial Desk -
A young graduate of IIMC struggled for his livelihood for years, just because he shouted slogans against Barkha Dutt
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News Reports

Top Lies spread by Indian Media in February 2016

Gaurav -
A compendium of media untruths from February 2016
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Opinions

Twitter mob along with twitter india employee bully a 15yr old girl for having an opinion

Sharanya Shetty -
Jhanvi Behal became a victim of cyberbullying for expressing her views.
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Opinions

Sri Sri speaks to us: World Culture Festival, Intolerance, Beef ban and much more

OpIndia Staff -
In a free-wheeling interview, HH Sri Sri Ravi Shankar speaks to us on a variety of issues
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Social Media

What were you doing when you were 28?

OpIndia Staff -
What were you doing when you were 28?
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News Reports

Kejriwal shared fake “Pakistan Zindabad” JNU video to target ABVP, will he apologise?

Gaurav -
Will action be taken on those who spread falsehoods on social media?
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Opinions

Proud of You, Media!

Ullas -
Indian media continues to surprise us. Many of the earlier analysis of the media was wrong. Glad that they are back to responsible journalism.
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News Reports

Reviving Indian Textbooks: The Barkha files

OpIndia Staff -
Barkha Dutt's story was found in textbooks Indian students read
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Law

What the courts say in Kanhaiya’s bail order

OpIndia Staff -
Bail for Kanhaiya - But Conditions Apply
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Opinions

The EPF mess and how not to bring in a taxation change

Gaurav -
The outrage over EPF and the genesis
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News Reports

AAP MLA abuses Modi Govt in public, asks crowd to support an alleged ISIS ideologue

OpIndia Staff -
A shocking video of an AAP MLA publically using abusive words for the Modi Government has surfaced out. A video posted on a blog...
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Opinions

The only summary of Union Budget 2016-17 you need to read

Aashish Chandorkar -
This budget presents a believable picture on the numbers and outlines the priority area of government spending without doing anything fancy.
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Opinions

“Rangeela” Rasool can kill but “sex worker” Durga won’t

Alok Bhatt -
A case for more tolerance
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Media

The Indian media ‘Fauxars’ – Awards recognising Faux news

OpIndia Staff -
Its time for the Red Maoist Carpet
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Fact-Check

‘Viral Sach’ fact-checker of ABP News itself becomes a liar

OpIndia Staff -
ABP News caught is the lies of "Viral Sach"
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News Reports

SaveOurChildren – an initiative to correct our Education System

Editorial Desk -
An effort to redeem our children's education
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News Reports

Twitterati respond to Rage of the Left Liberal Media

OpIndia Staff -
When a magazine saw the Outlook of Indians
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Opinions

An open letter to Rahul Gandhi from an Indian

MRINAAL PREM SWARROOP SRIVASTAVA -
Rahul Gandhi must face some tough questions
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News Reports

A Fact-Check on The Telegraph’s “Fact-Check” regarding Smriti Irani’s speech

Gaurav -
Opinions are masquerading as "fact-check"
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Media

Meet NDTV’s Vishnu Som

S. Sudhir Kumar -
Vishnu Som boasts of a chequered past
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Media

Rajdeep didn’t declare Dawood a patriot, but he did give a ‘context’ to his terrorism

Rahul Roushan -
Rajdeep Sardesai didn’t call Dawood Ibrahim a patriot, but he virtually painted him a victim.
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Media

Open Letter to Barkha Dutt from a Social Media Sanghi communal troll

Nupur J Sharma -
Barkha Dutt's letter is a consortium of lies and half-truths
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News Reports

Lies, manipulations, insults – What Indian media gives to our Army

OpIndia Staff -
NDTV and Firstpost were the first to exploit a soldier's death
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News Reports

Pro-Afzal and anti-BJP reporter resigns from Zee News, media paints him “neutral”

OpIndia Staff -
How media glorified a Pro-Afzal and anti-BJP reporter who resigned from Zee News as a neutral journalist
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News Reports

Yes Ravish Kumar, Indian media is indeed a dark place

Gaurav -
Ravish Kumar's sanctimonious rant is hypocritical
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Politics

‘Liberals’ demand National Flag be declared a dangerous weapon; file PIL in Supreme Court

Ajayendar Reddy -
Adarsh Liberals have today filed a PIL in the Supreme Court demanding the national flag be declared a dangerous weapon.
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Media

An open letter to Rajdeep “IAmAntiNational” Sardesai

Vivek Agnihotri -
Rajdeep's open letter is a desperate attempt at survival in media.
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News Reports

How ScoopWhoop uses all tricks in the trade to white-wash JNU incident

Gaurav -
Has Scoopwhoop, which is essentially an Indian buzzfeed, plunged into news making and reporting now? From their latest video "Inside JNU - In search...
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Opinions

JNU issue: If sedition laws must go away, so should our blasphemy laws!

Manithan -
Is nation greater or religion for the "FoEktards"
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Opinions

Open Letter to JNUites from a Social Science Researcher of IIT

Vinod -
Discuss, debate, dissent but please, don’t be disloyal.
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Opinions

Why Indian media is against Arnab but India isn’t

Gaurav -
Top journalists and commentators want 'boycott' of Arnab, but the people appear to be standing with him. Why?
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Opinions

I hate my country and I want you to stop questioning my patriotism

Guest Author -
A terrified soul speaks
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Opinions

Free Speech: Kamlesh Tiwari vs JNU

Nitin Rivaldo -
How can you support people like Umar Khalid who have links to Jaish?
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News Reports

“Kejriwal-Insults-Hanuman” trends on Twitter as outrage over Kejriwal’s tweet grows

OpIndia Staff -
Kejriwal is being accused of insulting Hindus and Lord Hanuman
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Opinions

A lesson in free speech for our blabbering commentators

Mayuresh Didolkar -
Saving Free speech from the JNU bullies
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News Reports

Home Minister joins media in getting fooled by fake twitter handles and satire

OpIndia Staff -
When a fake tweet was source of real news
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