The Media, Pitroda & Gaza
The Media, Pitroda & Gaza The controversy in India about the Opposition Congress supporter Sam Pitroda evidently arises from the media’s wilful misrepresentation of what he said: for when he rejoiced at the ethnic diversity of Indians, that was claimed racist when he recommended redistribution Indians were told they would be impoverished to benefit Muslims . The Press acts as self-appointed guardian of public memory. It remembers but has chosen to suppress how it aided Modi’s rise to power – by disseminating uncritically his promise of redistribution . Namely to gift every poor Indian Rs 15 lakhs of Indian money supposedly held abroad by it was insinuated Congress Leader Sonia Gandhi. That would have meant giving Rs 417 trillion to 278 million people (https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/IND). That undertaking has been evidently abandoned as billionaires have multiplied under Modi yet have often fle...