The Pandemic Has Yet Again Exposed Modi s Insidious Politics of Narrative Control
As is its wont, instead of addressing the unfolding crisis, the Modi government has once again aggressively stepped up efforts to silence criticism.
A patient wearing an oxygen mask is wheeled inside a COVID-19 hospital for treatment in Ahmedabad, India, April 26, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/Amit Dave
Politics10 hours ago
In a column written during the fall of 2019, I discussed some of the key political economy lessons learnt from five years of the Narendra Modi-led BJP government. The piece argued, amongst many other reasons, Modiâs electoral victory in 2014 was built upon his partyâs political slogan of âminimum government and maximum governanceâ, which warmed the hearts of many free market-loving entrepreneurs and commentators.
It s Not Enough to Say the Govt Has Failed. We Are Witnessing a Crime Against Humanity.
The politics of Indiaâs COVID-19 catastrophe.
A man carrying wood walks past the funeral pyres of those who died from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), during a mass cremation, at a crematorium in New Delhi, India April 26, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Adnan Abidi
Politics29/Apr/2021
During a particularly polarising election campaign in the state of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, Indiaâs prime minister, Narendra Modi, waded into the fray to stir things up even further. From a public podium, he accused the state government â which was led by an opposition party â of pandering to the Muslim community by spending more on Muslim graveyards (
Showing grisly visuals of Covid disaster is mediaâs job, projecting âpositivityâ isnât
Without such reporting and the personal risks journalists have taken, we would not have known half the horror story that is unfolding.
29 Apr, 2021 I can t breathe . These words were immortalised by George Floyd, the African American who died after he was held down by a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, in Minneapolis, US in May 2020. Floyd s death after those nine minutes that Chauvin continued to press his knee on his neck is now
history. It led to nationwide demonstrations and demands to end systemic racism in the US and change policing methods. On April 20, a court held
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