YouTube video threatening journalists, activists ushers in QAnon conspiracy mindset in India
50-Word Edit

YouTube video threatening journalists, activists ushers in QAnon conspiracy mindset in India

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

   
50

ThePrint

The now deleted video calling for the hanging of journalists and activists by a YouTuber with over four lakh subscribers is frightening, preposterous and ushers in a QAnon style conspiracy theorising in India. This kind of dangerous content online, often peddling fake news, needs to be urgently checked and countered.

Dinesh Trivedi’s resignation from Rajya Sabha shows the clock is ticking for Mamata Banerjee

Dinesh Trivedi’s resignation from Rajya Sabha shows Mamata Banerjee’s failure to arrest implosion in the Trinamool Congress. His charges against his party may sound convenient and seasonable in an election year but the exodus of leaders exposes a deeper malaise afflicting Bengal’s ruling party. The clock is ticking for Banerjee.

Reducing Wasim Jaffer to his religion an unconscionable crime. He is an invaluable asset

All patriotic Indians must hang their heads in shame at the bitter and bigoted targeting of Wasim Jaffer. He is an invaluable asset of cricket. To reduce him to his religious identity is an unconscionable crime. Sport is meritocratic and performance-driven. Dragging religion or caste into it will kill it.