Gandhi and SBM – प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी की छवि का उपयोग कैसे किया
150वीं गांधी जयंती पर, प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी की छवि का उपयोग कैसे किया On 20-Sep-2018 PM Modi invoked Gandhi while making a call to the nation for Swachh Bharat Mission: Video clip 4-Oct-2018 Vinod Kochar wrote this contrarian article 150वीं गांधी जयंती पर, प्रधानमंत्री ने गांधी को उनके विराट व्यक्तित्व के हिमालयीन शिखर…
Fake Hindus and How Radicalisation Happens
Retd Supreme Court Judge BN Srikrishna speaks his mind. He excoriates the ruling dispensation. Interviewed by Rana Ayyub, an intrepid journalist who wrote and published Gujarat Files herself (as no publisher wanted to take the risk of offending the Big One). Interview clip
Has the Constitution Failed us or have we Failed the Constitution?
President KR Narayanan had posed the rhetorical question to save the Constitution from a previous assault on it. Satya Narayana Sahu in his article in NEWSclick dated 20th August,2023 cites Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) who has laboured on the right-wingers’ covert theme of jettisoning the idea…
President of India snubbed by “The Boss” multiple times; New Parliament should be the last straw
“The Boss”, freshly minted moniker bestowed upon PM, Modi by his Australian counter part has served to distract and salvage his severely battered image among his devout (often described as cult) followers. Today, on 28th May, the birth anniversary of VD Savarkar, the second spectacle is in progress. The New Parliament inaugural is happening sans…
Gandhi did try to save Bhagat Singh – contrary to what many critics charge
Dhruv Rathee 1-Oct-21 Gandhi did try to save Bhagat Singh .. and more interesting facts about right wingers contrasted.. https://youtu.be/pbr4-Thu1Lw 23-Mar-22 The Wire Article republished on the death anniversary of the three martyrs – Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev – were hanged by the British colonial rulers on 23-Mar-31. Excerpts: Eighty-five years ago, on March…
Examples of fakes that were fact-checked and debunked
Using the methods mentioned in another blog below, it was possible to fact-check the following fakes from one WhatsApp Group! #1 Nehru was slapped .. false narratives associated with a real photo from AP archives https://www.altnews.in/photo-of-jawaharlal-nehru-shared-with-false-narrative-that-he-was-slapped-in-1962/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thequint.com/amp/story/news%252Fwebqoof%252Fphoto-of-unrelated-incident-viral-as-nehru-being-slapped-after-1962-sino-indian-war There is a concerted campaign by BJP that the true history, particularly facts about Nehru,…
Fact checking tips – fakes and deep fakes
Everyone has experienced the menace of fake news and torrent of forwards which many people mindlessly circulate. At best it is a huge waste of time and at worst it leads to violence and wrong people winning elections! It is very important to apply filters based on prior reputation of sources of news but then…