Govt to launch online platform to 'challenge anti-India narrative in foreign media' | The online channel will 'challenge the anti-India narrative in foreign media through hard and compelling commentary, challenge stereotypes attributed to Indian systems and put forward the India perspective'.

So basically "create an utopia and then start controlling the narrative".That's not how it works.

Works better than burying your head in the sand and pretending everything is alright.

That's possible,it's also possible that "Indian perspective" is the Indian perspective on complex geo-political and global cultural issues,say things like pointing out dalai lama visiting arunachal pradesh being no cause for concern and highlighting China's shitty policies.

Well we can hope. All it will be is propaganda wars however, and it certainly wont accomplish much in terms of our relationship with China or other countries.

It could also act as a showcase of Indian culture,heritage and history so that distortions like CNN's racist documentary or NYT's clear racism and anti-Indian and anti-Hindu stand is challenged

Well that would be nice, but it will only highlight the areas the gov. want to. I don't imagine you'll be seeing reports on Jallikattu any time soon. If anything it will be used by the gov. to further distort the image of India by focusing on the image it wants to project, rather than the reality.

LOL no.The left and the right do not face the same problem,simply because majority of the MSM is controlled by the Left and veers heavily towards the Left

Even if this is true it doesn't address the actual issue. The problem isn't the media highlighting one side or the other, it's that political violence exists at all. You can't use bias in the media as a way to justify violence on either side.

Bunch of sophistry that is far removed from the ground reality.The fact is that almost any negative coverage of the Left is ignored and hushed up by the media,no matter what happens.The baseless bogey of "both sides are same" is raised without understanding that the problem is not universal and is rooted to certain places and ideologies and parties.

It's ignored on the left so violence on the right is okay? Using this as an argument to justify violence makes no sense. Yes it's rooted in certain ideologies on both sides.

In fact,your supposedly neutral stand is what leads to normalisation,as it's the sort of thinking that goes "It's not just the Congress party that loots and is corrupt,all parties are equally corrupt and people like you are the reason they are normalised"

You're falling into the trap of whataboutism again. I'm not suggesting that because all parties are guilty of corruption and violence it makes it okay. In fact I was saying the exact opposite. Violence and corruption should not be tolerated anywhere, or by anyone. It's only by taking a neutral standpoint on political violence (and let me be clear, I mean neutral in the sense that it is universally condemned, regardless of the perpetrator) that we can move past the tit for tat political violence and justification on the grounds that your opponents are committing the same crimes.

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