The manner in which the “western media” covers India has, for long, been a pet peeve of patriots and expatriates. Poverty, disease, death, despair, corruption, communal violence… these are the only things that capture the attention of the “arrogant”, “condescending”, “patronising” foreign correspondent based in India, is the setpiece argument. Well, guess what, Chinese patriots…
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No news is good news unless it is bad news?
One of the hackneyed charges against Western hacks in India is that they diligently separate the wheat from the chaff and report the chaff. India’s successes, triumphs and achievements, we are told ad nauseam, are ignored by the “nattering nabobs of negativism” who can only see death, disease and despair; floods, famines and failure. KANCHAN…
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