Broken News

Broken News

For Western and Indian press, people are just footnotes in the performance of war

Media can’t kill India’s colonial mindset if it bows before VIPs

Connecting the dots: From ‘Devbhoomi’ to Mumbai, the communal targeting media won't see

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The bigger story in Kashmir is the media’s silence on action against its own

SC’s baffling bail order rattled the press. Voter rolls exercise should terrify it

TV media sinks lower as independent media offers glimmer of hope in 2025

When media ‘solves’ terror cases, Kashmiris are collateral damage

From one WhatsApp to every frontpage: How ‘sources’ dictated the Delhi blast coverage

Washington Post’s Adani-LIC story fizzled out in India. That says a lot

Taliban’s male-only presser: How media failed to fact-check Afghan minister’s pro-woman claims

Jimmy Kimmel to Kunal Kamra: Trump’s US follows a familiar playbook from Modi’s India

Media spotlights leaders, but misses stories of those affected by their decisions

Bihar’s silenced voters, India’s gagged press: The twin threats to Indian democracy

Independence Day is a reminder to ask the questions EC isn’t answering

2006 Mumbai blasts are a stark reminder of glaring gaps in terror reportage

What Bihar voter roll row reveals about journalism and India

The editorial we didn’t see on Emergency@50: Authoritarianism with anaesthesia in 2025

From Trump’s ceasefire claim to Modi’s G-7 optics, media didn’t ask the right questions

Full volume on Op Sindoor, silence on the stateless

The bigger story in Kashmir is the media’s silence on action against its own

SC’s baffling bail order rattled the press. Voter rolls exercise should terrify it

TV media sinks lower as independent media offers glimmer of hope in 2025

When media ‘solves’ terror cases, Kashmiris are collateral damage

From one WhatsApp to every frontpage: How ‘sources’ dictated the Delhi blast coverage

Washington Post’s Adani-LIC story fizzled out in India. That says a lot

Taliban’s male-only presser: How media failed to fact-check Afghan minister’s pro-woman claims

Jimmy Kimmel to Kunal Kamra: Trump’s US follows a familiar playbook from Modi’s India

Media spotlights leaders, but misses stories of those affected by their decisions

Bihar’s silenced voters, India’s gagged press: The twin threats to Indian democracy

Independence Day is a reminder to ask the questions EC isn’t answering

2006 Mumbai blasts are a stark reminder of glaring gaps in terror reportage

What Bihar voter roll row reveals about journalism and India

The editorial we didn’t see on Emergency@50: Authoritarianism with anaesthesia in 2025

From Trump’s ceasefire claim to Modi’s G-7 optics, media didn’t ask the right questions

Full volume on Op Sindoor, silence on the stateless