three weeks since the government of Narendra Modi, in one swoop, scrapped Jammu & Kashmir’s constitutional autonomy, ended its status as a state and divided it into two parts, both to be ruled from Delhi. It carried this out not by consulting the region’s 12m-odd inhabitants on whose behalf it claims to be acting, nor after a national discussion or even the semblance of a proper parliamentary debate.
Rather, it achieved its ends by cutting phone lines and access to the internet, arresting nearly the whole political leadership and imposing, in effect, a curfew. As Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a public intellectual, puts it, the act of supposedly integrating the former state more fully into India has begun by casting the mostly Muslim inhabitants of the Kashmir valley “under a pall of suspicion”.
Today, far from crawling, India’s press and television channels are jumping up and down and cheering. Talking heads vie to outdo one another in celebration. Few match the bombast of Arnab Goswami, whose brand of shriek show has launched a new network, Republic’s reporting of both a huge protest in Kashmir and shots fired by Indian security forces to disperse it “a dirty and a motivated lie”.
Reporting on what is really going on in Kashmir is hard. Foreign journalists are hindered from going there. The Kashmiri press is stymied from getting its story out. This month Delhi’s Press Club of India succumbed to pressure not to show a documentary, “Kashmir Caged”, that carried testimony of Kashmiris’ treatment at the hands of the security forces.
In truth, the press’s current sycophancy rises from a hinterland of intimidation, trimming and currying favour dating back to Mr Modi’s rise to national power in 2014. Government ads are pulled in retaliation against newspapers that have been critical of the
It has always been , many years ago when I came to England and read the British press, I realised how sycophant and cowed the Indian media was, obviously not much has changed.
India embracing free market capitalism and trash media like the economist pounces to destroy
This is an extension of inbuilt bias that exist with in Indian society in the name of religion, caste, gender, region & language. So mainly Hindu forward (so called upper castes) castes males from North-India who speaks Hindi are behind this. Others are just followers.
this media is pro China...too obvious 😳
Arnab Goswami, Navika Kumar & Anjana Om Kashyap lead from the front. They have attained mastery in sycophancy.
There will be time when government will abuse 'Godi Media' also, and there will be no one to raise questions and to save them.
failed to note Arnab Goswami is an UniofOxford alum.
Well, shows the way to world media about how best to indulge in sycophancy. Remember the cover story justifying attack on Iraq? And many more shameless pieces in praise of manipulative greedy capitalists?
salimdotcomrade We don't watch such loafer grade exercises on sycophancy, greedy subservience to the altar of the powerful and the moneyed!
sanjayuvacha And the Award goes to the one & only..... any guesses?
What about u r biased attitude towards Asia. U fool remember it is an elected government be careful with u r words.
Such stand isn’t acceptable.
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Don't talk about the doing away with special status of Kashmir. That's the right decision. The bloodcurdling political conflict's decimated in the dust. Sometimes sycophancy is lively nationalism in disguise. I'm hundred percent assured that Kashmiris would be wonderful citizens.
StopGenocideinKashmir
It is as simple as a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic vs ethnoreligious nationalism exported by Pakistan's ethnolinguofascistic military.
Why should we consider the worthies at the Economist credible voices on J&K, esp with your long history of rabid hostility against Modi and Hindus in general
Pls. assess your research on Kashmir. Current Government is solution provider. Suggests to check your facts on basis of 700 years history of Himalayan region. Hope you find who have destruct the real culture in the name of Islam.
This’s unfair!
India should solve the problem other than nobody
Leading figures of Kashmir are self serving dynasties. They are impediment to any progress. If something has not worked for decades why something new can't be tried?
Writing without understanding. 😠🇮🇳🙏
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