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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicIndian Media

Topic: Indian Media

We’ve turned Jaya Bachchan’s anger into a national pastime. It must be exhausting for her

Each paparazzi encounter, each parliamentary outburst, is just another episode in this tragicomedy.

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Kursi Bachao’ stuck to Budget 2024. TV news to papers, all knew where to look

'It’s raining jobs, jobs, jobs,' said an elated Rahul Kanwal on India Today’s Budget Special. But Rajdeep Sardesai was dubious: 'right intent, reality different'.

Indian TV news is showing the brewing political war like it is—giving all parties airtime

We are not just hearing from Congress and BJP. News channels are inviting voices from JDU and TDP to DMK, Samajwadi Party, TMC, and RJD. Hopefully, this trend will become the norm.

TV news must do what it’s advising BJP after 2024 results—introspect

A warning to traditional news media: change or the public will go for a changeover—people are looking for more than what you are offering.

Indian media covers caste only when there’s a tragedy. X, Instagram, YouTube changed that

‘Bahujan Lives Matter’, ‘Ambedkar Dhamma’, ‘Dalit Desk’, ‘Dalit_history’, ‘Dalitjournal’, ‘Dalit Camera’ are some well-known social media handles that help disseminate the ideas of Ambedkar.

No matter what the Opposition does, it can do no right in the eyes of Indian TV channels

From Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the 'big story' for Aaj Tak, News 24, and Republic Bharat was the ‘aloo gift’ from BJP supporters who accosted Rahul Gandhi and chanted 'Jai Shri Ram’.

‘Indian media is self-regulated but must avoid erring intentionally,’ says I&B minister Anurag Thakur

Cautioning media against the ‘debilitating infodemic’ and ‘digital colonialism’, Thakur said at DNPA conclave that it must showcase work of the government and country to the world.

How Mandir, Modi, & Media played their roles in Ayodhya for BJP ahead of Lok Sabha election

If a deity, a superstar prime minister, Bollywood’s blockbuster actors, cricket’s little master, and media circus aren't enough to get BJP the votes, nothing else can.

Moon, Manipur, MPs, Modi—media in 2023 was more divided than Indian politics

If Indian media's coverage helped tip the scales against ex-WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, then global media weakened western support for Israeli attacks in Gaza too. Watch out for 2024 elections now.

Headlines say it all—NewsClick coverage shows a deeply divided Indian media

Politicians strike us and we watch the flames engulf journalism—we don’t douse them.

On Camera

Will Mumbai start looking for its Mamdani now? The city is as unaffordable as New York

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani will face hurdles. And Democrats cannot mistake one city’s victory for a national mandate.

India’s services exports touching $400 bn—a quiet engine offsetting trade deficit

In 2024-25, India exported $387.54 bn worth of services, against imports of $198.14 bn, earning all-time high surplus of $189.40 bn. This offset 2/3rd of goods trade deficit. 

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.