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    Media analysis

    ‘News’ of Amartya Sen’s passing false, confirms Nobel Laureate’s family

    Shinjinee Majumder10th October 202311th October 2023

    A claim that Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has passed away went viral on social media on October 10. On X (formerly Twitter), a handle named after the winner of the…

    ReligionSociety

    Pak team greeted with saffron scarves on arrival in India? No, misleading claim

    Oishani Bhattacharya9th October 20239th October 2023

    A clip featuring Pakistan men’s Cricket team captain Babar Azam is viral on social media where he can be seen wearing a saffron scarf around his neck. The video is…

    Politics

    Army man plots ‘attack’ on himself to get ‘famous’; news sparks communal outrage

    Shinjinee Majumder26th September 2023

    Social media is currently rife with the claim that an Indian Army soldier named Shine Kumar was assaulted by a group of unidentified men in Kerala. The attackers allegedly restrained…

    PoliticsSociety

    No, Narendra Modi is not India’s first OBC Prime Minister

    Shinjinee Majumder26th September 2023

    BJP president J P Nadda recently claimed that his party had given India its first OBC (Other Backward Classes) Prime Minister. Nadda was speaking in the Rajya Sabha on the…

    Religion

    Student in hijab heckled: Old clip from Indonesia viral with misleading claims

    Oishani Bhattacharya21st September 2023

    A video, seemingly of a school/college classroom, is being widely shared on social media. The clip features a few male students who can be seen hitting and bullying a female…

    Media analysisPolitics

    Did Canada issue a travel advisory against India amid worsening diplomatic ties?

    Shinjinee Majumder20th September 202321st September 2023

    Within hours of Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau alleging that “agents of the government of India” had carried out the assassination of Sikh independence advocate Hardeep Singh Nijjar in…

    HistoryPolitics

    India vs Bharat: BJP’s sudden U-turn & why the ‘British named us India’ theory is a distortion of history

    Indradeep Bhattacharyya19th September 202319th September 2023

    What’s in a name? Apparently, a lot, if social media trends and raging political discourses are anything to go by. The India vs. Bharat debate has caught the fancy of…

    Politics

    ‘Allah’ word was not removed from ‘Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram’ played at Rajghat during visit of heads of states

    Abhishek Kumar16th September 2023

    A video of foreign dignitaries, who were recently in India to attend the G20 Summit, paying their respects at the final resting place of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat is being…

    PoliticsSociety

    ABP reporter Debmalya Bagchi’s arrest in Bengal: Veracity of complaint, police ‘excesses’ under scanner

    Indradeep Bhattacharyya14th September 202315th September 2023

    Days after the arrest of Anandabazar Patrika (ABP) reporter Debmalya Bagchi in Kharagpur, West Bengal, multiple questions are being raised about the nature of police action against the well-known journalist…

    FeaturedReligion

    From Kajal Shingala to ‘Hindusthani’: The rise of the female face of Hindutva hate politics

    Priyanka Jha10th September 2023

    This article uses as its source Kajal Shingala aka Hindusthani’s Facebook/Twitter activities, videos posted on her YouTube channel and other platforms and our telephonic conversation with her.  On August 8,…

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