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The Wire

TheWire is a primarily English language opinion website started by Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu and one more random guy. The primary raison d’être of TheWire seems to be to continue getting money from the Anti-modi lobby and old establishment guard after Varadarajan and co were cut off from the gravy train post Modi win. As an example Sid Varadarajan made a lot of money appearing on Rajya Sabha – the kind of money even private channels cannot afford to give to guests. No price for guessing that Rajya Sabha was under Hamid Ansari at that time who has been accused by rAW officers of being a mole and a traitor.

Since the beginning, most of TheWire’s writeups have been focused on Modi and to fuel communal sentiments by fueling paranoia in minority communities based on many false news and manufactured propaganda.

On this page, you can find our collection of some of these propaganda pieces and our rebuttal and fact checks of them.

Opinions

Siddharth Varadarajan rants, repeats a probably fictitious sob story about a Hindu-Muslim couple he met in Italy: Here is the problem with it

S. Sudhir Kumar - 7 April, 2022

Siddarth Varadarajan who is an American citizen and the editor and co-founder of The Wire made one such innovative attempt today, through a tweet thread.

News Reports

The Wire journalist tells a woman who felt violated to ‘not weaponise her privilege’ against man who ‘was from lower-class chain’

OpIndia Staff - 5 April, 2022

A woman on Twitter expresses her ordeal at a hospital where she felt violated by a hospital staff during a medical procedure, but The Wire journalist asked her not to 'weaponise her privilege'

OpIndia Scoops

Congress uses Al Jazeera to claim democracy is in danger, read how it is full of loopholes and load of cr*p

Anurag - 16 March, 2022

Congress clutches on to Al Jazeera to claim democracy is in danger, but is awfully misleading and biased as usual

Media

Hijab verdict: Leftist portal The Wire loses it after Karnataka High Court order, compares it to death camps under Nazi Germany

OpIndia Staff - 15 March, 2022

The Wire, got so upset with High Court decision disallowing hijab in schools, that they compared it to Nazi Germany and Hitler's death camps.

News Reports

George Soros funded V-Dem Institute claims decline in India’s Democracy rating: Read how western liberal organisations are running an anti-India propaganda

Pallav - 5 March, 2022

George Soros' sponsorship of the V-Dem Institute reveals a lot about the organization's intentions toward India.

News Reports

‘Godhra carnage a lie, nobody saw anyone setting railway coach on fire,’ says Siddharth Varadarajan: Longstanding effort of the Left to blame Hindus

Shashank Bharadwaj - 4 March, 2022

The Wire founder Siddharth Varadarajan insinuated that Godhra train burning was a conspiracy to target the Muslim community

News Reports

Court orders The Wire to take down 14 articles against Bharat Biotech and Covaxin, not to publish any more defamatory reports

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2022

A court in Telangana has ordered The Wire to take down 14 articles it had published against Bharat Biotech

Media

The Wire gives legitimacy to Islamist apologist by teaming up with Turkish propaganda website to further ‘Muslims unsafe in India’ narrative

OpIndia Staff - 23 February, 2022

The Wire decided to toe the line of an apologist of Islamist behaviour, who had recently even indulged in spreading Taliban propaganda only to make PM Modi, the BJP and its supporters in poor light and further the anti-Hindu rhetoric.

News Reports