India’s surprise election result leaves the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi without voter support and at the head of a delicate coalition. Will this new setup loosen the screws on Indian media and give it the opportunity to reinvest in journalism rather than the sycophancy that has dominated the airwaves much of the past decade ?
Contributors:
Nishtha Gautam – Columnist, NDTV
Sreenivasan Jain – Host, The India report
Mukul Kesavan – Historian and novelist
Fatima Khan – Journalist, The Quint
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Amid the European parliamentary elections, the fight against disinformation continues between the European Union and Russia. Meenakshi Ravi explains how Moscow could be behind a campaign to misinform and discourage European voters.
Israel’s cultural annihilation in Gaza
The listening post covered Israel’s war on Gaza through the prism of the media, including the unprecedented assassination of Palestinian journalists. But there is another level to what is happening in Gaza: the genocidal attack on Palestinian history, existence and culture.
Feature Contributors:
Jehad Abusalim – Writer