I often meet people who are incredulous at the media’s uncritical attitude to the Modi government. Some call it “capitulation”, others “supine” and many “pusillanimity”. This is something almost everyone has noticed. Yet it’s also a subject on which most journalists are silent. If they at all speak its behind closed doors and in confidence.
Thankfully Rajdeep Sardesai has spoken out loudly, clearly and forcefully in his book 2019: How Modi Won India. “In the Modi-era, the media’s collusion with the political executive has touched such unprecedented heights that the reality checks that the press is supposed to provide on the
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