It’s important for media to focus on the reality of life in this country...

The NDTV anchor Ravish Kumar rightly says that the Indian media does not focus on the important things. India’s economy is not describing the trajectory previously described by economically successful nations like China, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea, or those succeeding today, like Vietnam and Bangladesh. Third, the Reserve Bank of India conducts a bi-monthly survey asking thousands of homes across India whether they were better off in economic terms, employment terms and inflation than a year ago. The number of cars sold in India has remained flat for 10 years, with 27 lakh units sold in 2013 and the same this year and last year and in 2019. These include laws criminalising beef and cattle transport, criminalising inter-faith marriage and Muslim divorce, tightening of laws where they can rent and buy property in Gujarat, of course there is the constant harassment and brutalisation in Jammu and Kashmir, the violence against them and their places of worship in Delhi, the stream of stories of harassment and violence against their vendors, their being forced out of prayer spaces specifically allotted to them by the state, their being wrongly blamed for spreading Covid-19.