The Art of Ruling: The Modi-Shah Doctrine of Governance and how the duo brought the Media and Mobs to kneel in 2019
5 years ago

The Art of Ruling: The Modi-Shah Doctrine of Governance and how the duo brought the Media and Mobs to kneel in 2019

Op India  

The Year 2019 has been historic by any measure. In this article, we shall make an effort to deduce how Narendra Modi brought the liberal establishment to kneel, of which the mainstream media is the most prominent part, and dealt with the threat of Muslim mob violence. The Blitzkrieg If the Modi government’s strategy during its first term was ignoring the mass hysteria generated by the media and put faith instead in their political instincts and knowledge, in the second term, the Modi government’s strategy with regards to the media could only be described as a giant middle finger. The Muslim Mob Violence: Consequence of the Liberal Establishment’s Defeat The utter defeat of the Liberal Establishment and the relentless pursuit of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah towards accomplishing their ideological objective meant that the Opposition had to play the final card in their hand: The Threat of Muslim Mob Violence. Therefore, if ever there was a simple answer to the question of how the Modi-Shah duo brought the Liberal Establishment and the threat of Muslim Mob Violence to kneel, it is thus: They brought them to kneel by strictly adhering to the rules of the game while at the same time, continuously consolidating their political power.

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The Great Indian Media Surrender: From Watchdog to Lapdog
2 weeks, 1 day ago

The Great Indian Media Surrender: From Watchdog to Lapdog

The Hindu  

Published : Dec 25, 2024 12:00 IST - 10 MINS READ There was a time, not long ago, when the Indian press exposed a commission scandal allegedly implicating a Prime Minister. Silent media Yet, nearly four decades later, the story of Gautam Adani’s companies being indicted by a US court for paying bribes to procure green energy contracts creates barely …

BJP Activates Social Media Team to Counter Oppn Attack on Shah
2 weeks, 4 days ago

BJP Activates Social Media Team to Counter Oppn Attack on Shah

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: As Opposition parties prepare to protest against Union Home Minister Amit Shah for allegedly disrespecting Dr B.R. Ambedkar, the BJP has activated its social media strategy to counter the allegations and target Opposition groups, particularly the Congress. Utilising memes, short videos, and video clips, BJP’s social media team of influencers has launched a vigorous campaign aimed at discrediting …

How ‘India’s New Right’ is the result of individual endeavours, not societal or governmental – Firstpost
3 weeks, 4 days ago

How ‘India’s New Right’ is the result of individual endeavours, not societal or governmental – Firstpost

Firstpost  

What separates the new Right from the old is that while the previous generation largely operated within the parameters defined by their intellectual adversaries, the current ones are redefining and rewriting their own path. Abhijit Majumder’s book, India’s New Right: Powering the Current Wave of Nationalism and Civilisational Revival, further exposes the ludicrousness of the notions—Left and Right. So, we …

Anti-India narrative on social media: Why it’s time for government to counter online negativity
3 months, 4 weeks ago

Anti-India narrative on social media: Why it’s time for government to counter online negativity

Firstpost  

A wave of anti-India sentiment is flooding social media, distorting our global image. India can no longer afford silence and has to reclaim its narrative on the world stage Lately, social media has evolved into a platform where global narratives are created, shaped, and spread at turbo speed. A recent example is the “What’s wrong with India?” campaign on social …

As the US Embassy promotes Leftist elements in India, read how the Biden administration and CIA have been using social media, paying influencers to manipulate public opinion
5 months, 3 weeks ago

As the US Embassy promotes Leftist elements in India, read how the Biden administration and CIA have been using social media, paying influencers to manipulate public opinion

Op India  

On the 17th of July, the US Embassy in India informed about its event for Indian social media influences and content creators to learn about boosting social media engagement on social issues and learn about “active citizenship”. Is the US trying to use social media and Indian content creators, particularly those opposed to the ruling dispensation to meddle in India’s …

Digital Revolution in Indian Politics: How BJP Harnessed Social Media
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Digital Revolution in Indian Politics: How BJP Harnessed Social Media

News 18  

The emergence of digital media—social media, mobile journalism, YouTube, etc—has transformed the political contour in India, with social media platforms becoming the new battleground for electoral campaigns. Among these parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party has proven to be the most successful in harnessing the power of social media to connect with voters and shape public opinion, while the Congress-led Opposition—if …

In India’s strife-torn Manipur, narrative battle is fought on social media
1 year, 2 months ago

In India’s strife-torn Manipur, narrative battle is fought on social media

Al Jazeera  

Social media warriors have sprung up to share their community’s views and put down the others’ in this ethnic conflict. “Before we got hackers, we had given access to our social media accounts to people outside the state … Social media has become important to tell people what is happening here,” the leader said. He told me, “I opened this …

Media Boycott by INDIA Bloc Exposes Unsettled Priorities and Insecurity - News18
1 year, 3 months ago

Media Boycott by INDIA Bloc Exposes Unsettled Priorities and Insecurity - News18

News 18  

In a surprising move, the Opposition alliance, aptly named INDIA, has declared one of its initial decisions: a boycott of approximately 14 prominent TV anchors. There are tactful ways to address concerns, and it’s essential to acknowledge that various political parties, both past and present, have, at times, chosen to boycott media organisations, anchors, or newspapers. The Opposition alliance’s unequivocal …

Understanding the ideological divide online
1 year, 5 months ago

Understanding the ideological divide online

Hindustan Times  

Algorithms used by social media companies in drawing in and retaining users have been the subject of scrutiny for several years now. Spanning multiple election cycles and a once-in-a-century pandemic, the debates centre around a simple question: Is social media dividing people? Starting from 2008, when Barack Obama first used social media for a political campaign to the divisive 2016 …

From romanticising to humanising: Here’s how the mainstream Indian media has tried to generate sympathy for jihadis
1 year, 6 months ago

From romanticising to humanising: Here’s how the mainstream Indian media has tried to generate sympathy for jihadis

Op India  

Remember those Bollywood movies wherein a Hindu is corrupt, a Pandit is a rapist, an Indian soldier turns terrorist, a Baniya is an exploitative cheat, but Abdul is a peace-loving person driven by responsibilities? With such articles, the media hopes that Umar’s girlfriend’s cause would become the cause of the average citizen, with the facts being suppressed and summarily ignored …

World Press Freedom Day | How free speech in India is compromised by government control over platforms: Book excerpt from ‘Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government is Holding Indians Back’ by Subhashish B
1 year, 8 months ago

World Press Freedom Day | How free speech in India is compromised by government control over platforms: Book excerpt from ‘Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government is Holding Indians Back’ by Subhashish B

The Hindu  

Published : May 03, 2023 07:00 IST - 6 MINS READ In December 2004, the Delhi Police arrested Avnish Bajaj, the CEO of Baazee.com, because someone in Kharagpur, West Bengal, tried to sell through the website video copies of two Delhi-based students having sex. Social media companies, a term left vague and expansive, need to take down content within 36 …

Why the woes of Indian journalism affect all Indians
2 years, 1 month ago

Why the woes of Indian journalism affect all Indians

The Hindu  

The first week of November includes a day selected by the United Nations as the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Though the Indian Constitution is liberal, its interpretation through legislation has been anything but; harsh omnibus laws infringe and limit liberties, violate human rights and lead to degeneracy among administration and law enforcement agents. Now, from …

How to survive a war of lies: Understanding anti-Hindu communication, media and propaganda
2 years, 3 months ago

How to survive a war of lies: Understanding anti-Hindu communication, media and propaganda

Firstpost  

When a whole environment of lies exists across media, academic, NGO and governmental platforms, the task of anyone trying to speak the truth and stand for the truth becomes even harder The war on lives faced by Hindus might be a very old one, and one which earlier generations managed to fight and survive. It becomes almost impossible for people …

Media sellout: List of TV news anchors toeing the government's line grows
2 years, 8 months ago

Media sellout: List of TV news anchors toeing the government's line grows

The Hindu  

AS THE BULLDOZER BROKE THROUGH THE tin shed of a fruit cart at Delhi’s Jahangirpuri, and there were visuals of a mobile repair shop outside a mosque collapsing like a pack of cards, the television anchor was beside herself with joy, terming it as “historic action against illegal encroachment”. Asked by Anjana Om Kashyap on Aaj Tak to respond to …

Twitter campaign and the story of Uttar Pradesh poll battle
2 years, 11 months ago

Twitter campaign and the story of Uttar Pradesh poll battle

India Today  

When the first few Orkut and Facebook groups supporting Narendra Modi started appearing in 2008, nobody thought that this served any purpose other than allowing a small set of NRIs or young, upper-class Indians a means of engaging with the leader. His nemesis and eventual successor, Yogi Adityanath, went from being a minor presence on social media to one of …

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day
3 years, 1 month ago

Media has key role to play in vibrant democracy of India: I&B Minister on National Press Day

The Hindu  

Media is a watchdog and has a key role to play in the vibrant democracy of India, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur said on November 16. In his audio-visual message on the occasion of National Press Day, Mr. Thakur called on the media to curb the menace of fake news. “National Press Day is a day to reflect …

Inside BJP’s UP War Room: Catchy Tunes, Cheeky Cartoons Mark Party's Mega Pre-Poll Digital Drive
3 years, 1 month ago

Inside BJP’s UP War Room: Catchy Tunes, Cheeky Cartoons Mark Party's Mega Pre-Poll Digital Drive

News 18  

It is the baap of all state elections and the ruling BJP does not want to leave anything to chance. From the BJP’s out-of-bounds war room in Lucknow, a mega social media outreach and ground-level campaign is being rolled out to reach voters ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls 2022, party functionaries told News18. The social media structure of …

How India’s T20 loss to Pakistan lets our social media ‘liberals’ take off their masks
3 years, 2 months ago

How India’s T20 loss to Pakistan lets our social media ‘liberals’ take off their masks

Firstpost  

It is shameful that these ‘liberals’ wantonly celebrate a defeat, are more cruel to the Indian team than the ‘illiterate’ fans they scoff at daily, and make it out to be a defeat for India as a nation The responses to India’s loss to Pakistan in the T20 World Cup have been truly extraordinary. Blame it on the frustration of …

Big Tech Is Bending to the Indian Government’s Will
3 years, 4 months ago

Big Tech Is Bending to the Indian Government’s Will

Wired  

As Indian democracy crumbles day upon day under the grasp of Narendra Modi, social media platforms have functioned in lieu of a free press. As Reporters Without Borders recently noted, journalists in India “risk dismissal if they criticize the government.” Since Modi took control in 2014, India’s ranking on the World Press Freedom Index has fallen every year, plateauing at …

Twitter vs Govt of India: Importance of SM and what is the road ahead
3 years, 6 months ago

Twitter vs Govt of India: Importance of SM and what is the road ahead

Op India  

Today, when the whole world is confronted with an unprecedented crisis due to the COVID19 pandemic, another crisis has emerged over the ‘penetrative’ role of social media platforms in India. Considering the kind of enormous outreach of social media, platforms such as Twitter have started to act arbitrarily to become a state within a state Twitter decided to defy an …

‘Media orgs are like dogs snapping at heels of bullock cart’: Girish Kuber after Devendra Fadnavis accuses media of acting like power brokers
3 years, 7 months ago

‘Media orgs are like dogs snapping at heels of bullock cart’: Girish Kuber after Devendra Fadnavis accuses media of acting like power brokers

Op India  

Earlier today, the leader of opposition in Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis interacted with Girish Kuber, the Editor of the Express group’s Marathi daily Loksatta, where the former chief minister took a swipe at the journalists, alleging that they are deluded into believing that they wield the power of making and breaking governments. Loksatta has relinquished its role of being anti-establishment ever …

Aakar Patel | Why Twitter's action on BJP manipulation' is rattling govt
3 years, 7 months ago

Aakar Patel | Why Twitter's action on BJP manipulation' is rattling govt

Deccan Chronicle  

Twitter has marked tweets by Bharatiya Janata Party figures, including its spokesman Sambit Patra, as “manipulated media”. The BJP is upset and has sent another threatening note to Twitter saying that it should remove the “manipulated media” tag because the government was investigating the matter. These are legal notices from the Government of India asking Twitter to either block an …

Facebook, Twitter: A lifeline for Indians in the Covid crisis and a threat for Narendra Modi
3 years, 8 months ago

Facebook, Twitter: A lifeline for Indians in the Covid crisis and a threat for Narendra Modi

CNN  

On most days, Network Capital, a business networking group with over 67,000 members on Facebook, focuses on providing its community with information on job vacancies, higher education, and careers. Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhoto/Getty Images In a statement last week, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it had asked Twitter, Facebook and others to remove around 100 posts by users …

Muzzling the media: How the Modi regime continues to undermine the news landscape
3 years, 11 months ago

Muzzling the media: How the Modi regime continues to undermine the news landscape

The Hindu  

The recent arrest in New Delhi of a young freelance journalist and the registration of multiple first information reports against several senior scribes from many States are representative of the perils of being a journalist committed to the pursuit of truth in contemporary India. Furthermore, the leaked WhatsApp chats featuring Arnab Goswami showed that there was a casual nexus between …

Modi Govt Committed to Freedom of Press, Says Amit Shah
4 years, 1 month ago

Modi Govt Committed to Freedom of Press, Says Amit Shah

News 18  

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday greeted the media fraternity on the National Press Day, asserting that the Narendra Modi government believed in the freedom of Press and opposed attempts to “throttle” it. Extending his greetings, Shah tweeted: “Our media fraternity is working tirelessly towards strengthening the foundations of our great nation. The Modi government is committed to the …

Why Hate Facebook? It Might Just Be Last Best Free Speech Measure
4 years, 2 months ago

Why Hate Facebook? It Might Just Be Last Best Free Speech Measure

The Quint  

The recent investigative reports by TIME and the Wall Street Journal on Facebook’s content handling and lobbying activities have triggered an intense political debate in India. On the one hand, Facebook’s moderation of hateful content in India seems to have been influenced by business and political imperatives; on the other, it appears as if the relationship between its public policy …

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning
4 years, 3 months ago

Freedom and bias: How Facebook is facing a reckoning

Deccan Chronicle  

What a year it is turning out to be for Facebook! The ongoing deposition before India’s parliamentary standing committee on information technology was always going to be a perfunctory but important attempt to raise questions of Facebook’s influence over societies and their behaviour. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad shot off a strategically timed letter -- coinciding with the parliamentary committee …

Social media: The new theatre of India’s culture wars
4 years, 4 months ago

Social media: The new theatre of India’s culture wars

Hindustan Times  

The phenomenal rise of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and others is proving to be a double-edged sword in the functioning of democracies. The former’s flagging of a presidential tweet as fake news, and the latter’s executive order altering the liability of SM platforms who edit content, is worth understanding better. Especially since the early 20th century, US …

WSJ story about Facebook India being ‘partial’ to the BJP is the revenge of the old media
4 years, 4 months ago

WSJ story about Facebook India being ‘partial’ to the BJP is the revenge of the old media

Op India  

Last evening, on Independence Day, I saw a couple of self-declared liberal journalists tweeting about how they were deleting their Facebook profiles. Not because I keep track of all top executives of big corporate houses – which otherwise being an ‘MBA types’ perhaps I should have been doing – but because I had sent several emails to her complaining about …

Can Tamil media weather a Hindutva onslaught?
4 years, 5 months ago

Can Tamil media weather a Hindutva onslaught?

Deccan Chronicle  

Beyond the coronavirus induced retrenchments and salary cuts, Tamil journalism faces a challenge from India’s right wingers. The common grouse is understandable given the fact that upper caste people, particularly Brahmins, dominate every walk of life, including mainstream print media, in Tamil Nadu. Unfortunately, the Brahmins, who identify every emerging field and storm in as pioneers, had lost out on …

Sopore: Liberal Indian media crosses frightening line
4 years, 6 months ago

Sopore: Liberal Indian media crosses frightening line

Op India  

On June 19, merely days after the bloody clash with China at Galwan valley, engineers of the Indian Army completed a crucial 60 meter bridge over the Galwan river high in the mountains. Yesterday, the Indian liberal media crossed a very different sort of bridge. After the Sopore attack, segments in the Indian liberal media started circulating the rumor that …

India’s media is failing in its democratic duty
4 years, 10 months ago

India’s media is failing in its democratic duty

Al Jazeera  

India ranks so badly for press freedom because much of the media has simply stopped doing its job. The protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act, which grants a fast track to citizenship for certain religious-minority immigrants, have underlined the importance of not just the democratic process, which includes the right to peaceful protest, but also the role of …

Dear Mao-Lenin crossbreed left-liberal gang, had you done journalism properly, we wouldn’t exist
5 years, 4 months ago

Dear Mao-Lenin crossbreed left-liberal gang, had you done journalism properly, we wouldn’t exist

Op India  

Yesterday, our editor, Nupur Sharma posted two tweets saying, “They despise us because we wouldn’t exist if they were not incompetent. Had journalism been good, not even ethical per se, we wouldn’t have to use prefixes like ‘mainstream’ and ‘social’ before ‘media’. Remember, what kind of coverage Modi received during both his elections and how the same media tried every …

Press Club of India clamps down on hyper-activists, refuses to allow screening of propaganda reports on Kashmir
5 years, 4 months ago

Press Club of India clamps down on hyper-activists, refuses to allow screening of propaganda reports on Kashmir

Op India  

In a major embarrassment to anti-India forces within the country, the Press Club of India on Wednesday refused to provide a platform to members of ‘Tukde Tukde gang’ to spread their propaganda videos and images of Kashmir. According to Times Now, the Press Club of India refused to allow a group of ultra-left wing activists including freelance protestor Kavita Krishnan, …

Liberals suffer a meltdown anticipating the security situation in Kashmir
5 years, 5 months ago

Liberals suffer a meltdown anticipating the security situation in Kashmir

Op India  

Social media was abuzz with excitement following the recent developments in Kashmir late night on Sunday which continued post-midnight. Jab arz-e-Khuda ke kaabe se Sab but uthwae jaenge Hum ahl-e-safa mardood-e-harm Masnad pe bethae jaenge Sab taaj uchale jaenge Sab takht girae jaenge — Abhijeet Dipke August 4, 2019 Barkha Dutt appeared to be saying “This can’t be happening” in …

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Fighting fake news, criticism of MS Dhoni, best Pixar movies; today's must-read stories
5 years, 6 months ago

Firstpost Editor's Picks: Fighting fake news, criticism of MS Dhoni, best Pixar movies; today's must-read stories

Firstpost  

The direct and disastrous consequences of such content, circulated by social media in India, cannot be downplayed nor dismissed arbitrarily. Combating fake news: MEITY should allow legal-flexibility based on social media platforms over one-size-fits-all regulatory approach The direct and disastrous consequences of such content, circulated by social media in India, cannot be downplayed nor dismissed arbitrarily. Criticism of MS Dhoni …

Delhi Talks: Media has enjoyed most freedom during coalition regimes, says former Doordarshan news reader Sunit Tandon
5 years, 7 months ago

Delhi Talks: Media has enjoyed most freedom during coalition regimes, says former Doordarshan news reader Sunit Tandon

Firstpost  

Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a 10-part series of interviews with well-known residents of Delhi on issues that they believe define the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Tandon further recalls, “Thanks to my involvement in broadcasting, I have had an “insider’s view” of the evolution of the radio and television broadcast media as also its upheavals given that my …

Can social media be a force for good in Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday bombings? It's complicated
5 years, 8 months ago

Can social media be a force for good in Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday bombings? It's complicated

ABC  

Writing about the inextricably intertwined relationship between social media and ethno-political violence in Sri Lanka is perversely easy ― not least because there is such a mass of source material to draw upon. Nonetheless, the three reports over as many years provide compelling snapshots of a social media platform in Sri Lanka that was already acting as a Petri dish …

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: With polls underway, WhatsApp and other social media apps being used in a far uglier manner
5 years, 8 months ago

Lok Sabha Elections 2019: With polls underway, WhatsApp and other social media apps being used in a far uglier manner

Firstpost  

A general election in India, the world’s most populous democracy, seems a theoretical impossibility. In India, the Bharatiya Janata Party ran a formidable social media campaign on Facebook and, to a lesser extent, Twitter. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s trained social media teams, and a veritable army of enthusiastic volunteers, ensured that the party’s online presence was much more active than …

Radical Left Congress: Where treason and ‘bharat tere tukde honge’ is acceptable, but free speech on Social Media is not
5 years, 9 months ago

Radical Left Congress: Where treason and ‘bharat tere tukde honge’ is acceptable, but free speech on Social Media is not

Op India  

The Congress party in its manifesto, released earlier today, has promised a crackdown on social media. Under such circumstances, Rahul Gandhi’s promise to regulate social media appears to be motivated by political concerns hiding under the cloak of ‘hate speech’ and ‘fake news’. Further evidence of the fact that the promise to regulate social media is a direct threat to …

Lok Sabha polls: From dusty campaign trails to sleek social media, political parties leave no terrain to woo youths, seek more votes
5 years, 9 months ago

Lok Sabha polls: From dusty campaign trails to sleek social media, political parties leave no terrain to woo youths, seek more votes

Firstpost  

Social media has made it a lot easier for political parties to get out their message to more voters. Hired by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to find amusing ways to lionise Modi or lampoon Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Bhalerao is a social media warrior in an election campaign being fought online as never before. And, at a time when …

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