Question

Report writing of CAA​

Answer 1

Answer:

painful how several Indian journalists are maligning their own country in the articles they are writing for the Western press on the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) and the envisaged National Register of Citizens (NRC). To advance their destructive agenda, they are distorting or misrepresenting facts and are attributing the worst possible motives to the government.

Hollow reporting

Though not required to defend the government, they are also not expected to launch a smear campaign against it. Any sensitive and sensible Indian citizen would have some qualms about slandering their own government — and by extension, their own country — in the international opinion-building AngloSaxon foreign press. But these Modi/BJP-baiters seem to lack any.

Major damage is being done to India’s external image by internal anti-Modi forces in league with the so-called liberal Western press. Having largely failed to counter him politically in the domestic domain, the objective is to de-legitimise his agenda internationally as much as possible by projecting him as an anti-secular Hindu nationalist, authoritarian and as anti-democratic.

A pernicious narrative being assiduously promoted is that the anti-Muslim Modi government, determined to impose its Hindutava ideology, is set to take away the nationality of Indian Muslims wholesale and potentially put millions of them in detention camps and that the judiciary is compliant, the press intimidated, and the Indian democracy itself in danger. Some of the damage caused may not be easily undone as anti-Modi elements in India and alienated Indian-origin lobbies abroad continually feed into entrenched anti-Indian prejudices amongst self-defined Western “liberals” against Hinduism, any consolidating role it might play in nation-building, the fall-out of that on the minorities, in particular, Christian, and the government’s curbs on foreign-funded NGOs seen as limiting their ground-level political and religious activities then other physical activity then follow it ✌️