THE MADNESS OF MODI’S MEDIA

“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

— Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and rights activist, in a conversation with Columbia Journalism Review in 2017

Those unfortunate enough to be following Indian television ‘news’ channels on the night of May 7 — a day after India launched missiles on civilian targets in mainland Pakistan and Azad Jammu & Kashmir — could be forgiven for being thoroughly confused.