The NYT piece published on 21st June not only normalises biological females identifying as men, parenting children as fathers, but also furthers a victimhood narrative
On 14th May, The New York Times published an article headlined, “U.S. Set to Drop Charges Against Indian Billionaire Accused of Fraud”, wherein it claimed that the decision by the US authorities to drop charges against Gautam Adani came after “a meeting in which a lawyer for the billionaire, Gautam Adani, made an unusual offer, according to people familiar with the matter.”
Several foreign media publications covered the BJP’s thumping victory, though not without peddling propaganda about the victorious party’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ ideology, ‘Muslim minority under threat’ bogey and falsehoods about the pre-poll SIR exercise.
WION journalist Sidhant Sibal quoted a MEA spokesperson as saying, “We have seen the story. The telephone conversation on 24 March was between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump only.
The NYT report titled “How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion” was published on 20th January, marking the first anniversary of Trump’s second presidential term. Donald Trump has pocketed at least $1,408,500,000 since his January 2025 return to the White House, through an unprecedented exploitation of the office for his personal enrichment.
An exclusive in Semafor has revealed that the NYT and Washington Post both had prior knowledge of the raid before it was underway, but they chose to remain silent and delayed publishing anything about it, 'upon the request' of the Trump administration.
By invoking fascist-era imagery, stripping law-and-order actions of context, and framing Hindu civil society as inherently suspect, the NYT advances a fear-driven narrative that questions India’s democratic choices without directly acknowledging or contesting them.
For a change, The New York Times pointed out that while Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor to the Interim Government of Bangladesh, condemned violence as a security challenge, not targeted attacks on “any section of the population” (no specific mention of Hindus), the religiously-motivated killing of Dipu Chandra Das was celebrated by “many”.
While Rahul Gandhi alleges that there are fake and duplicate voters added in the electoral rolls, he also opposes an electoral roll revision, which is conducted to update voter lists by eliminating fake or ineligible voters.