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Showing posts with label Propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Propaganda. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Bad economy can't make people see reason, turn them 'humane': Can't checkmate communalism with this bogus theory

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi In wake of Haryana 'maha panchayat'--a huge gathering in support of those arrested for lynching a youth, I mus...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Media working as agent of right-wing: Inter-faith marriages are hailed when groom is Hindu, targeted if groom is Muslim

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi Media houses that take up active role in case of inter-religious marriages when groom is Muslim & create havoc wit...
Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Communalism in Indian Media: How Hindi newspapers, regional media created 'Love Jihad' bogey

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When a Muslim youth changed his name & embraced Hinduism, the papers praised the act and write--religion no bar, love wins.  Otherwise, ...
Friday, April 03, 2020

How to fight fake news, media misinformation, hate speech and communal propaganda: Islamophobia in India and Indian Media

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi The level of hate, misinformation and fake news has reached such an alarming stage that it has left a large sec...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Power of Propaganda: How lies about Hindu-Muslim population in India, Pakistan post-partition are considered 'true'

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The power of propaganda is such that people don't even think twice before peddling fake information and rather than facts, rely on Wh...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

WhatsApp Wakes up: After lynching incidents, sets off ad campaign to 'spread happiness, not falsehoods'

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WhatsApp has finally woken up from its slumber. It has begun a campaign--Khushiyaan baantiye, Afwaahein nahin. If translated from Ur...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Indian Media's Hall of Shame: TV channels airing fake news to spread propaganda, fan communal hatred, divide society

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Shams Ur Rehman Alavi  It is not easy to describe what is happening in India [and Indian media] right now. Top media houses that...
Saturday, July 02, 2016

Tendency to believe rumours, false propaganda is worrying: From Facebook hoaxes to propaganda during communal tension, riots

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Why do we so easily believe rumours [afwah], false information, especially, those that talk about something bad, without demanding any pr...
Thursday, June 16, 2016

Raebareli man writes to President, complaining that Zee TV is spreading communal hatred in country, demands ban on channel

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A man from Raibareli has written a letter to President Dr Pranab Mukherjee, demanding action on Zee TV. The man--Mahdi Hasan Aini Qasm...
Thursday, October 31, 2013

RSS wants Hindus to have more children: Shouldn't Sangh leaders take up real issues like female foeticide rather than perpetuating old myths?

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Once again the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh [RSS] has urged Hindus that more children should be produced, in order to check the demographi...