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Justice Muralidhar, Gaza and Media Bias: The Crucial Facts The News Minute Left Out
The News Minute’s profile of Justice S. Muralidhar presents an admiring but incomplete account of his judicial career and leadership of the UN inquiry on Gaza. This analysis corrects the profile’s appointment timeline and carefully reconstructs the documented chronology of his controversial 2020 transfer. It explains why procedural rulings, criticism of anti-conversion laws and questions…
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Ramnath Goenka’s Defiant Stand: The Emergency Lesson India Must Never Forget
This long-form analysis revisits Ramnath Goenka’s confrontation with Indira Gandhi’s government during the 1975 Emergency and explains why it remains central to Indian media history. It examines how press freedom was threatened through censorship, surveillance, corporate pressure, bureaucratic harassment, and threats under MISA. The article highlights Goenka’s strategic use of legal and company procedures to…
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Exposing Hinduphobic Tropes: Media Framing of Sai Baba, Maduro, and India’s Colonial Hangover
This analysis examines how Nicolás Maduro’s detention in New York reignited discussion of his spiritual ties to Sri Sathya Sai Baba and how mainstream coverage often frames Hindu and broader dharmic traditions through exoticizing or derisive tropes. It critiques racialized descriptors and the trigger word “Godman,” showing how such language primes readers toward suspicion rather…