And then there is that piece that articulates the thoughts and emotions that have been building up inside...
In which @samirsaran calls out the biased, colonial, arrogant and vicious portrayal of India by the Western media as it covers the pandemic.
He writes:
1. As economic power begins its shift East, there is an increase in a hard stereotyping by the Western media.
2. "..the West seeks to tower above by diminishing the East"
3. It does so by picking only those stories that fit the stereotype.
4 "What is disturbing is the near universal, vicious and negative portrayal of a land that is proud of its democratic politics (just as many other nations are), with a loud, disruptive and often aggressive media, and mobilisations led by communities that have toppled governments"
5. "Over the last two months, organisations such as the BBC, the Atlantic , the Washington Post and the New York Times, among others, have run series of reductive commentaries on the state of India’s preparedness and its capacity to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic."
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