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The Dark History of Lutyens Media The Dharma Dispatch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO0QfRG3b24   Mar 6, 2024 history of the origin and growth of Lutyens media in Delhi. It is also the story of the downfall of Indian media. Listen to the story of how a handful of editors and journalists based in Delhi willingly surrendered their freedom in exchange for power and wealth.

The story really begins with the history of newspapers in India and the rapid ascent of the English language media which acquired power that was grossly disproportionate to its numbers. The power enabled a few media houses in Lutyens Delhi to bulldoze independent voices that criticised their brand of journalism. Lutyens media editors and journalists became brokers and fixers of politicians, even throwing the Indian national interest to the winds.

It is a sordid and depressing story but a story that must be told in the interests of democracy and freedom, and above all, to serve as a warning of what happens when the fence eats the crop.

https://www.dharmadispatch.in/ 

The Journey of The Jaipur Dialogues - From 0 towards Million | Future Projects The Jaipur Dialogues  online platform under the leadership of Sanjay Dixit. It covers a wide range of subjects including politics, governance, national security, foreign policy, economy, education, culture, history, and social issues. The Jaipur Dialogues aims to create an environment of intellectual rigour. 

 https://www.youtube.com/@THEJAIPURDIALOGUES 

Spiritual guru and founder of the Isha Foundation, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, has undergone emergency brain surgery at Apollo Hospital in Delhi after massive swelling and bleeding in his brain . https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/sadhguru-jaggi-vasudev-undergoes-emergency-brain-surgery-at-apollo-in-delhi-124032000835_1.html

https://thewire.in/rights/promised-gram-swaraj-eludes-varanasi-villages-narendra-modi-adopted 

This is the first article in a series of ground reports looking into whether the Bharatiya Janata Party has kept its poll promises in the last 10 years.

Over the last one decade, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted eight villages in Varanasi under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY). Chauhan’s village Domri, next to the river Ganga, is one of them. Under this scheme, each parliamentarian in India adopts one village from their constituency to make it a ‘model village’ within their tenure. Modi announced the SAGY in his first Independence Day speech in 2014, with promises of smart schools, universal access to basic health facilities and pukka housing for homeless villagers.

However, Domri is far from being a model village. In the absence of a house, most families in the Harijan Basti say they survive the monsoons under plastic and use a thin cloth for protection from mosquitoes when sleeping outside. For many, the cold becomes more unbearable than summer and rain

by Srishti Jaswal

14/03/2024