Arjun Sidharth is a writer with Alt News. He has previously worked in the television news industry, where he managed news bulletins and breaking news scenarios, apart from scripting numerous prime time television stories. He has also been actively involved with various freelance projects. Sidharth has studied economics, political science, international relations and journalism. He has a keen interest in books, movies, music, sports, politics, foreign policy, history and economics. His hobbies include reading, watching movies and indoor gaming.
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On December 14 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially commissioned INS Kalvari. The first of the Scorpene class of submarines, INS Kalvari was inducted with much fanfare after extensive sea…
‘Muslims fed bomb to cow which blew inside her mouth’, screamed ShankhNaad on its twitter page. The communal rabble rousing website posted a video shot in Vidisha in Madhya Pradesh,…
‘Head cut open’, ‘castrated’ and ‘boiling oil poured on face’ are some of the provocative messages that are doing the rounds on social media to describe 21 year old Paresh…
On Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s website www.narendramodi.in, the headline for one of the stories on December 12 gleamed ‘PM Modi becomes first passenger of India’s first ever seaplane!‘. The article…
Social media is replete with misinformation, rumours and fake news that is often disseminated with the motive of causing division among communities. This exercise is being conducted in an organised…
