In the wake of the April 22 Pahalgam massacre, a former BSF officer exposes how agenda-driven media coverage has deepened anti-Muslim sentiment, diverted attention from security failures, and undermined India’s pluralist fabric.
A Tragedy Twisted: How Media Fuels Communal Hate After Pahalgam - The Wire
The media, instead of focussing on the Hindu/Muslim angle, should have asked how such an act could be carried out by militants without intelligence agencies detecting their footprints – electronic or otherwise.
Another question that the media should have asked is how and why there was no security – not even police – at a popular tourist place that was reportedly witnessing a gathering of a large number of tourists on a daily basis.
While reports of the selective killings of Hindus in Pahalgam are perhaps correct to an extent, giving this exclusive coverage at the cost of the alternative narrative expressed by tourists has provoked unscrupulous elements of society to harass and harm Muslims in many parts of the country.
02/05/2025