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The spike that never came: How media made unfounded claims of 2020 festive season sparking a renewed Covid-19 surge

Jinit Jain - 25 June, 2021

Media published a host of articles predicting that the festive season in 2020 would spark a COVID-19 surge. But it never happened.

BBC apologises for its coverage of footballer Eriksen’s collapse, it is time they apologise for their grotesque reportage on India’s Covid outbreak too

Jinit Jain - 14 June, 2021

The western media outlets, including BBC, ought to apologise India for perpetrating racism with their egregious coverage of country's COVID-19 pandemic and linking it with morbid images of burning funeral pyres.

Media

Washington Post journalist deletes his racist tweet against Indians, blocks everyone who calls out his racism

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2021

Washington Post's Dave Weigel's problematic tweets raise eyebrows, netizens call out the racism.

Opinions

Fake fundraisers & funeral pyres : How do India’s Covid vultures sleep at night?

Abhishek Banerjee - 30 May, 2021

During the second wave, did these columnists charge a “surge fee” to foreign newspapers? Or was it that so many people offered to write columns that their wages got depressed?

Opinions

“Indian variant” is a repeat of how the world changed Hitler’s “hooked cross” to “Swastika”

Abhishek Banerjee - 27 May, 2021

From America to Europe to Australia, no human being on the face of this earth is safe. Because the "Indian variant" is coming for everyone.

Opinions

Rana Ayyub, Barkha Dutt and the funeral pyre of journalism: How western media has attacked Modi Sarkar in 7 years of its rule

Jinit Jain - 26 May, 2021

For seven years since it came to power at the centre, Modi government has been ceaselessly subjected to attacks by western media outlets.

News Reports

Congress toolkit: The uncanny resemblances between the actions of Congress supporters and instructions in the AICC document are hard to miss

OpIndia Staff - 19 May, 2021

Several comments and actions by Congress leaders and supporters show that they were following the toolkit prepared by AICC

Opinions

Congress may have rubbished the toolkit as ‘fake’ but there are enough reasons why people find it authentic

Jinit Jain - 18 May, 2021

A toolkit was recently in circulation that highlighted the Congress party's devious attempts to tarnish the Modi government.

Politics

How to be “Godi media”? Learn from American ‘liberals’

Abhishek Banerjee - 24 January, 2021

It’s a classic case of projection. Liberals see their opponents as they themselves are. Fawning over their leaders in a way that would rival North Korean state television.

Media

Here is how the international media called Osama Bin Laden ‘a warrior building road to peace’ 27 years ago

OpIndia Staff - 7 December, 2020

Years before the gruesome 9/11 attacks, Osama Bin Laden was hailed by the international media as a philanthropist who emancipated Muslims in the Afghan war and was helping build roads for the poor in Sudan

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