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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.

News Reports

Meta Vs The Wire: Delhi court orders conditional release of electronic devices seized from editors of The Wire in raids last year

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2023

The devices were seized during raids by the Delhi police at the residence and offices of The Wire in Delhi in October 2022.

News Reports

The Wire spreads fake news about martyred BSF jawan’s family not receiving compensation, gets fact-checked by PIB

OpIndia Staff - 3 September, 2023

"Border Security Forces jawan Ranjit Yadav’s family still awaits any compensation from the Union and state governments," The Wire had falsely claimed.

News Reports

Arfa Khanum Sherwani of ‘The Wire’ meets two other anti-Hindu, Islamists from USA: Who they are, their rants against Hindus and more

Dibakar Dutta - 28 August, 2023

Arfa Khanum Sherwani has attempted to malign Hindus, by disseminating fake news, invoking guilt among Hindus over atrocities committed by Islamists, engaging in whaboutism, drawing false equivalences and defaming chants of 'Jai Shri Ram'.

News Reports

Ashoka University professor who made bizarre claims alleging election rigging in India quits after serious flaws in his ‘paper’ were pointed out

OpIndia Staff - 14 August, 2023

The Wire report has tried to make a martyr out of Das, asserting that he had to resign because of political pressure, and not due to the fact that the University had publicly denounced his attempts to create social media activism out of an unpublished, yet to be peer-reviewed paper.

News Reports

Journalist with Reuters, anti-Hindu TheWire tries to internationalise Gurugram violence, skips mentioning Islamist violence against Hindus at Nuh

OpIndia Staff - 3 August, 2023

Reuters reporter raised Nuh violence matter during US State Department press briefing, interestingly, she has also written for The Wire

News Reports

Manipur: Imphal court finds ground for case against two Kuki leaders for contentious remarks in interviews with Karan Thapar on The Wire

OpIndia Staff - 30 June, 2023

Kuki leaders Wilson L Hangshing and Mary Grace Zou are booked under sections 153A, 200, 505(1), and 120B of the IPC for comments in an interview on The Wire

Media

‘Many Hussain Obama in India, no need to go to Washington’: Assam CM slams The Wire journalist over suggestion that Assam police should arrest...

OpIndia Staff - 23 June, 2023

Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma said that there were many thinkers like Obama who needed to be dealt with. He also said that the Assam Police would work according to the set priorities and that would first consider 'taking care' of such thinkers existent in India.

News Reports

Maharashtra: Inayat Pardeshi, a writer at The Wire Marathi, arrested for torturing and beating his own mother to death

OpIndia Staff - 22 June, 2023

Inayat Pardeshi is the son of Marxist couple Saroj Kamble and Ranjit Pardeshi. Saroj Kamble has reportedly been tortured and beaten to death by her son Inayat.

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