The final month of the year was no different when it came to proliferation of fake news. Here is a quick wrap of all the fake stories that did the rounds in December. 1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ride on a seaplane from Ahmedabad to Mehsana... Read More
Author - Arjun Sidharth
A photograph has gone viral on social media with the claim that it is representative of a Dalit protest. In the photo, bike borne cadres can be seen raising a flag which, it is claimed, is the national flag of Pakistan. The caption accompanying the... Read More
Social media, although a great platform for dissemination of alternative news and views, is also infamous for circulating and popularising fake news. 2017 was no different as we saw a proliferation of misleading and fake information on various... Read More
‘Politics makes strange bedfellows’ is a saying that is vindicated to a not insignificant extent by the close nexus between mainstream media and politicians. The fourth pillar of democracy whose role is to question the powers that be and... Read More
Ratan Sharda, RSS thinker and ideologue, was called out by twitterati after he posted this tweet on December 23.The #Church in full form. #HappyXmas. Great marketing pic.twitter.com/AdVSnSMkJd — Ratan Sharda (@RatanSharda55) December 23, 2017 The... Read More
“Hamare liye garv ki baat hai ki 24 December 2002 ko Atal Bihari Vajpayee iss desh ke sabse pehle metro ke passenger bane they” (It is a matter of pride for us that on December 24, 2002 Atal Bihari Vajpayee became a passenger in the... Read More
Communal tension has been raging in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka over the last three weeks. Adding fuel to the fire are politicians from the state who belong to the Bharatiya Janata Party. BJP MP from Karnataka Shobha Karandlaje on December 14... Read More
Communal violence erupted in Uttara Kanada district of Karnataka in the first week of December after the body of Paresh Mesta was found floating on a lake in Honnavar town of the district. The region had been volatile for a week following clashes... Read More
Tejashwi Yadav, former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar and son of RJD chief Lalu Prasad put out this letter on the evening of December 17, purportedly written by the Deputy Election Commissioner in Gandhinagar. The letter was addressed to the State... Read More
Nationalism has been a dominant theme in recent political discourse and a part of this narrative is the eulogisation of the military. The Indian army has stationed soldiers at the Siachen glacier, the highest and toughest battlefield in the world where... Read More