India Today Better Stick to Sex Surveys at Seriously Sandeep

• India Today Better Stick to Sex Surveys at Seriously Sandeep

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  • Here’s one of the secular media templates on writing opinion pieces about the BJP:

    1. As elections draw near, run a smear campaign. Insinuate that a BJP win looks bleak due to blah blah blah blah.
    2. If it wins, yell murder and suddenly “discover” sstories of this or that lobby, defections, and how in large regions of the state, the Hindu vote was aggressively mobilized, etc.
    3. A few months down the line, say the BJP government is riddled with internal dissession.
    4. If #3 doesn’t work, fall back on the trusted trump card: RSS, VHP, new Hindutva laboratory (for everything else there’s Gujarat and Modi), and how minorities feel unsafe… (aside: I could work in the secular media and retire rich and early).

    These are thoroughly predictable because their banality is so transparent. However, once in a while there’s an article that so completely abandons even a pretence of neutrality that it necessitates VIP treatment. I was mildly surprised that a thoroughly despicable piece appeared in India Today, which used to carry some decent pieces till just a few years ago. The tone, tenor, and content of the piece is so vile that we don’t know where or how to begin dissecting it.