The Great Indian Disinformation Bazaar: Open Since 2014
https://www.business-standard.com/opinion/columns/operation-sindoor-india-needs-information-defence-not-just-rebuttals-125061201445_1.html Lets begin with a bitter truth, served neat : the great Modi revolution of 2014 was not built on reform, renaissance, or even righteous anger. It was built on a well-oiled machinery of misinformation and disinformation. Call it what you will—spin, distortion, propaganda—but it has served as the backbone of the new India that many chest-thump about and too few dare question. Remember the three scandals that brought down the UPA government like a house of damp cards? Commonwealth Games , 2G spectrum , and Coalgate . All were declared “historic scams” by our then-echoing newsrooms. Faces were red with rage, fists were raised in candlelight vigils, and an old man in a Gandhi cap threatened fasts unto death. The result? After all the commotion, not a single conviction . Courts dismissed the cases. No money trail, no fraud. Just the noise of a nation exp...