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How the national media acted like clueless idiots over a picture of crowded Rajiv Chowk

OpIndia Staff -
National Media was clueless about the featured image used by them. To hide their incompetence, they made it a political story.
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News Reports

How Indian media covered the Pathankot attack

OpIndia Staff -
Indian media sunk to a new low during Pathankot Operations
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Politics

During Pathankot siege, Narendra Modi and Parrikar had their Shivraj Patil moment

OpIndia Staff -
Another optics fail by Modi Government, this time during terror activities
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News Reports

“First Day First Show”: Did Odd-Even work? and how Media played its part

Gaurav -
Call it a novel idea, call it "Tughlaq-esque", Delhi's Odd-Even plan caught the eye of many in India and most on social media. One...
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News Reports

Inspirational stories of 2015 which could reach to us only due to the social media

OpIndia Staff -
In 2015, Social Media also acted as a medium to carry and spread inspirational stories which would have lost otherwise
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News Reports

2015 Review: The Must read pieces of the year gone by

OpIndia Staff -
The best of 2015 all at one place
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Media

2015 Rewind: The times when Journalists got trolled by Twitterati

OpIndia Staff -
All the best trolling journalists got in 2015
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Opinions

Jungle Raj appears to be returning in Bihar, but the media is not yet alarmed

Rahul Raj -
The rise of crime in Bihar is posing danger to Bihar, but the silence of national media is even more concerning.
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Media

May the facts be with you – How a fake news about Star Wars fooled our media

Manithan -
Indian media falls for another satire piece and publishes it as real news.
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Opinions

The legitimacy of AppWapsi and Boycott Dilwale protests

Gaurav -
Public discourse in India might have seen a watershed moment thanks to these apparent silly movements
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Opinions

Paradigm Shift at Nairobi WTO Ministerial Talks

Ramaharitha Pusarla -
A report on the WTO talks, beyond hashtags
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News Reports

By eating mid-day meal prepared by a barred widow, DM sets an excellent example

OpIndia Staff -
How a District Magistrate reinstated lost social status of a widow in Gopalganj district of Bihar
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Opinions

Dear Shashi Tharoor, here is the real war that is destroying India’s reputation

Vibha Sekhar -
Shashi Tharoor claims that Narendra Modi is at war with pluralism, but truth is something else.
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Media

Stop being presstitutes – a reply to a journalist’s “plea”

factorator -
A rebuttal to an article published on website scroll.in
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Opinions

9 reasons why Arvind Kejriwal needs to see a shrink

Vivek Agnihotri -
Arvind Kejriwal showing the tell-tale signs of a person who has lost his balance
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Opinions

India’s first Bullet Train: History, facts and numbers

Dhaval Patel -
Bullet Train in India is a win-win situation
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News Reports

CBI raids Arvind Kejriwal’s secretary: The History and where Kejriwal fails

Editorial Desk -
Arvind Kejriwal stands on weak ground so far as case against his principal secretary is concerned.
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Fact-Check

Rahul Gandhi lies, says RSS stopped him from entering temple: Here is what really happened at Barpeta Satra when Rahul Gandhi went there

Raju Das -
Pappu cant lie sala
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Opinions

Why India is not a secular state

Ashwini Anand -
The laws and practices of India show that "secularism" followed in India is a farce.
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Opinions

Chandan Mitra’s bigger sin: Slamming Twitterati or falling in Barkha’s trap?

Gaurav -
Dr Mitra's comments on Twitter users are uncalled for, but he was smartly set up for that by Barkha Dutt.
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Opinions

Government’s Gold schemes and whether they are a threat to Gold in Temples

Aashish Chandorkar -
The chances of the government “taking away the temple gold by deceit” are overstated and border on paranoia.
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News Reports

Top Lies spread by Indian Media in November 2015

Gaurav -
Big Lies 1. 27 November 2015: IndiaTimes - Prime Minister Narendra Modi Caught Sleeping During Parliament Session We had written on this in more detail here. Indiatimes...
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News Reports

“Rising intolerance” of another kind; privilege motion against BJD MP Jay Panda for his opinions

OpIndia Staff -
MPs belonging to the “tolerant” parties have filed a privilege motion against Mr. Panda for his views on powers of Rajya Sabha.
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Interviews

R Jagannathan on why he removed his article on Arun Jaitley and his new innings with Swarajya

Editorial Desk -
Former Editor-in-Chief of Firstpost talks about the past controversies and future plans of Swarajya.
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News Reports

Actor Piyush Mishra rejects “growing intolerance” clamor, blames left for maligning Hindus

OpIndia Staff -
Mishra said that communal divide had always existed in the country and everyone, including Congress and Left, had only worked to widen it.
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Opinions

As PM Modi talks ‘Climate Justice’ in Paris, Jairam Ramesh denigrates India’s position in COP21

Vibha Sekhar -
Calls India moralistic, argumentative and regressive in an interview with New York Times
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News Reports

Media Apathy towards Chennai Floods

OpIndia Staff -
Media's response to #ChennaiFloods, Apathy to Incompetence
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Culture and History

Series | Decoding Indian Belief Systems: Does Hinduism believe in one God or 33 crore Gods?

Guest Author -
While the texts might have meant 33 Supreme Gods (including elements of nature and the abstract aspects of the self), they have been lost in translation and many Indians since then believe that Hinduism has 33 crore Gods.
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News Reports

National Anthem row: petty fight between two individuals hyped by TV and social media

Guest Author -
Media and Social Media spiced up a small fight between two groups as a national issue without verifying facts or full story.
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News Reports

Newspaper draws piggy bank to show ISIS funding, Muslim groups attack it as pig is “unislamic”

OpIndia Staff -
Marathi newspaper Lokmat wrote an article on how ISIS receives funding. It received attacks and an FIR.
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News Reports

“Tolerant” people force Literature Festival organizer to quit as they didn’t like his views

OpIndia Staff -
Writers calling themselves as “liberals” and “tolerant” force Vikram Sampath, Founder Director of Bangalore Literature Festival, to quit.
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News Reports

Tools Indian Media uses: “Mainstreaming”, “Mean World Syndrome” and “Agenda Setting”

OpIndia Staff -
An understanding into what tools media employs
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Politics

An appraisal discussion amid growing intolerance

NR Nigam -
A satirical appraisal of Intolerance in India
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Entertainment

Raveena Tandon threatened and abused by Journalists and Trolls

OpIndia Staff -
Intolerance to opposing views is rising in India
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News Reports

Shramdaan for Swachh Bharat: A Citizen’s Initiative (23-25 November)

OpIndia Staff -
Group of individuals are planning to unite, collaborate and clean more than 35 cities of India. Social Media is playing a vital role in such initiatives.
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Social Media

Arvind Kejriwal hugged Lalu Yadav, social media made a sweet deal out of it

OpIndia Staff -
Social media suddenly became very creative and funny after they saw Arvind Kejriwal hugging Lalu Prasad Yadav
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News Reports

Madrassas are a threat to liberty: Tufail Ahmad at India Ideas Conclave 2015

OpIndia Staff -
Tufail Ahmad argues that Indian Muslims can't be reformed unless they reject Madrssas and provide education of science and mathematics to their kids
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News Reports

From Dadri to Haryana to Manipur, how stories about crimes against Dalits and Minorities have panned out

OpIndia Staff -
Just like "Church attacks" the initial stories of attacks on dalits and minorities are fizzling out
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News Reports

Pakistan is the original “Islamic State”, much before ISIS: Tarek Fatah at India Ideas Conclave 2015

OpIndia Staff -
Tarek Fatah tears into the Idea of Pakistan - an idea that is incompatible with modern democracy.
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News Reports

Subramanian Swamy’s allegations against Rahul Gandhi, and the other things they reveal

OpIndia Staff -
Swamy's fresh allegations against Rahul Gandhi
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Opinions

A JNU student speaks: I hope one day my Alma Mater stops being “a communist hell-hole”

OpIndia Staff -
Stories from JNU reveal what the university has become.
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News Reports

Does Smriti Irani’s HRD ministry have plans to regulate private IIT coaching centres?

Gaurav -
When deliberations become recommendations and recommendations become HRD Ministry plans
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News Reports

Anti-Modi group refuses to apologize for distorting “Om” into Nazi symbol

OpIndia Staff -
Instead of offering apology or expressing regret, the group says that “the image was chosen carefully and deliberately”.
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Culture and History

Series | Decoding Indian Belief Systems: Is this world just a dream?

Guest Author -
The purpose of the lives of the Indian philosophers was the exploration of the eternal truth. And the eternal truth was not to be found in the world outside, but the world within.
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Opinions

The elitist side of the firecracker debate

Guest Author -
Every Diwali, the debate on firecracker ban is resurrected
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News Reports

“Why, How, and When” of the successful #MarchForIndia

Vivek Agnihotri -
#MarchForIndia received a huge response. People deliberately tried to malign the whole event by going against the ideologies they stand for.
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News Reports

Top Lies spread by Indian Media in October 2015

Gaurav -
There have been 23 media lies in October 2015
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News Reports

Introducing discussion forums for OpIndia.com readers

OpIndia Staff -
OpIndia.com launches discussion forums for its readers. Just register with an email and start the debate.
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Opinions

Hindus’ freedom from intolerance : A reply to the news peddlers of the West

Guest Author -
When Hindus started recognizing their identity, the Western media became quick to brand them intolerant
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Opinions

Modi Wave – the double edged sword of BJP

Kishore V. Ramsubramonian -
It is imperative for BJP to rethink their strategy on putting Modi ahead for every State elections and local body elections, as the only face of BJP
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