Talk about the role of mass media in the history of South Asia and making history in South Asia and the world. This couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. The web site of the Consulate General of India at Chicago has posted a clip of Martin Luther King address to India via All [...]
Wahajat Khan of Dawn Pakistan interviews L. K. Advani and raises the issue of Gujarat killings 2002. Advani offers New Delhi 1984. He is able to hold the moral equivalance for a while till he unwittingly falls into the trap of his own rhetoric when he criticises the Congress for justifying the 1984 killing of [...]
“Germans too were enamoured”, Economic Times, Link After Anil Ambani and Bharti Mittal endorsed Narendra Modi as potential prime minister, the Congress party responded by calling Modi Hitler and by comparing the billionaires to the industrialists who supported the Nazi government. It is ironic because from the left to the right, everybody has courted capital. [...]
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Hindustan Times reports Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s suggestion of a national database of criminals and suspects. He also wants changes in laws so that these can be made possible: “We need to create a database of all the criminals at national level with the help of forensic science. Only database of those who have [...]
Indian media often invokes Singapore as an aspirational model of development. Critics have called the country a “corporate-state”, meaning a country where corporate and state interests are joined at the hip (link). Very recently Indian billionaires Anil Ambani and Bharti Mittal have hailed Narendra Modi as future prime minister of India raising fears of corporate [...]
Times of India reports on attainment levels by primary school students in rural Ahmedabad and wobbles the axis of the spin and propaganda that surrounds discourse on Gujarat. Headlined “Ahmedabad: Show piece or shame!”, the report states that: only 51.5 per cent children studying in village schools in Classes 3 to 5 can even read [...]
Mitchell Reiss (cited in Christian Brose’s blog at Foreign Policy) says Hillary Clinton could be asked the following question at her confirmation hearing. It has been reported that there will be a Special Envoy for South Asia. What will be this person’s mission? What problem is he trying to solve? Also, after years of trying [...]
The media coverage of Mark Penn dropping the PPP account last year hides more than it informs, in particular how public opinion is shaped and the weaknesses of Indian media’s foreign news coverage. Late December 2008, Times of India, The Hindu, Sify.com, DNA, NewsX picked up a Politico.com report about Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategist Mark [...]
In his last press conference, George W Bush, outgoing President of the USA arguing against the suggestion that the country’s moral standing in the world had been dented cited India and said: “go to India, and ask about, you know, America’s — their view of America.” On 25 September, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [...]
