Certain media outfits are calling the Bengal polls ‘historic’. Particularly, the contest in Nandigram.
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Is it, truly so? How come?
So why was a sitting chief minister, elected for two-terms earlier, camping outside a polling booth in Nandigram in this suffocating heat, on a wheel chair, her one foot in plaster? What was the point in this public spectacle?
Some journalists and self-styled prophet psephologists using academic jargons (identity politics etc) seem to have they gauged the public mood with such meticulous and scientific precision that they are out to create a wave for the BJP in the media! How logical and rational is that, even while journalists on the ground are trying hard to objectively report trends and the pulse, not jumping to conclusions, even while most voters are too intelligent and measured, while they choose to be tight-lipped or go round and round in circles before opening their hearts out?
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Jaishankarâs problem is stark â no amount of external PR can cover up Indiaâs truth
Freedom House and V-Dem are no gold standards of democracy rating. But Jaishankar must know that just pointing out Western hypocrisy wonât cover Indiaâs reality.
Yogendra Yadav 17 March, 2021 2:01 pm IST Text Size:
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S Jaishankar has an unenviable task. He has been handed over the job to give a liberal gloss to a government that cannot spell l-i-b-e-r-a-l. More than manage external relations, he is here to manage external public relations, to ensure that the Narendra Modi government doesnât get a bad international image. Now, thatâs manifold more challenging than managing domestic media, mostlyÂ