India’s surprise election result left the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a major loss of support from voters and the leadership of their fractious coalition. Could this new setup provide space to loosen the screws on Indian media and reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophants that have dominated the airwaves for the past decade?
Contributors:
Nishtha Gautam – Columnist, NDTV
Sreenivasan Jain – Host, India report
Mukul Kesavan – historian and novelist
Fatima Khan – Journalist, The Quint
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With the European Parliament elections underway, the war on misinformation between the European Union and Russia continues. Meenakshi Ravi reports on how Moscow could be behind a campaign to misinform and discourage European voters.
Israel’s cultural destruction in Gaza
listening post It covered Israel’s war in Gaza through the prism of journalism, including the unprecedented killing of a Palestinian journalist. But there is another dimension to what is happening in Gaza. It is a genocidal attack on Palestinian history, existence, and culture.
Feature contributors:
Jehad Abusalim – Author
