Frontiers of Agenda
सरकार ने मानी चूक, फिर क्यों खेला गया ख़बर छिपाने का ख़तरनाक खेल https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2ehdhaOVg Ravish Kumar Official Apr 25, 2025
होटल वालों ने नहीं बताया कि हज़ारों पर्यटक आ गए थे? ये जवाब है या बहाना है कि पुलिस को पता नहीं था। सेना को पता नहीं था। दो हज़ार लोग आ गए, हज़ारों गाड़ियाँ आ गईं और किसी को पता नहीं चला। अगर ये जवाब है तो फिर साफ़ है कि सरकार के पास कोई जवाब नहीं है। इससे भी ख़तरनाक है कि गोदी मीडिया का सरकार के इस जवाब को ख़बरों से ग़ायब कर देना। छोटा कर लगाना और चुप रह जाना। आप इस वीडियो को देखिए पता चलेगा कि आतंकवादी ने 26 लोगों की हत्या कर दी लेकिन उसके बाद अब गोदी मीडिया ख़बरों की हत्या कर रहा है। इस तरह से ख़बरें लिखी जा रही हैं कि जवाबदेही की बात साफ ही न हो। केवल हमला कर देंगे, बदला लेंगे, मिट्टी में मिला देंगे वाली बातों को बड़ी बड़ी हेडलाइन बनाकर छापा जा रहा है। Google Translate The hoteliers did not tell that thousands of tourists had come? Is this an answer or an excuse that the police did not know. The army did not know. Two thousand people came, thousands of vehicles came and no one came to know. If this is the answer then it is clear that the government has no answer. Even more dangerous is the Godi media making this answer of the government disappear from the news. Putting a small point and remaining silent. You watch this video and you will know that the terrorist killed 26 people but after that now the Godi media is killing the news. News is being written in such a way that the matter of accountability is not clear. Only things like we will attack, we will take revenge, we will destroy them are being printed by making big headlines.
Pahalgam was a policy failure, a propaganda failure, and a political failure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fgYBLXMbYs Ajai Sahni Frontline Magazine
In this episode of Latitude, Frontline's weekly show on India's foreign policy and global affairs, senior journalist and host Nirupama Subramanian speaks to the noted counter terrorism specialist Ajai Sahni in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. Sahni, who heads the Institute of Conflict Management that runs the website South Asia Terrorism Portal, talks about why the massacre on April 22 wherein 26 people were killed in Baisaran valley was not an intelligence failure but the fallout of the Narendra Modi-led Central government's political objective to prove "normalcy" in the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir following the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A.
Context:
The Baisaran valley, located in South Kashmir’s famed tourist resort of Pahalgam in Anantnag district, is a popular tourist spot, its rolling meadows reminiscent of many movie scenes. On April 22, 2025, this ordinary, cheerful place was turned into a slaughterhouse in a trice, turning the lives of several families upside down. Survivors said the firing continued for eight to 10 minutes. More than two dozen persons were killed, including a foreigner and a Kashmiri native, by what appeared to be trained gunmen.
According to defence experts, the militants probably chose the non-motorable and tough terrain in the forested area of Pahalgam since it “provides cover and more opportunities and safety than the hinterland”. As the news of the tragedy filtered down to the other parts of the Valley, the streets and highways slowly emptied of people, who were driven indoors by fear and sorrow, turning all of Kashmir into a ghost town.
Highlights:
Status of the Indus Waters Treaty after India suspended the 1960 agreement with Pakistan
How Pakistan will react to the curtailment of waters under the IWT
Is an India-Pakistan border crisis around the corner or is this mere aggressive posturing
How India can retaliate in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack
What India's ideal response should be to the Pahalgam terror attack
Whether the Pahalgam massacre represents an intelligence failure or not
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Ground Report: , West Bengal https://thewire.in/communalism/ground-report-what-really-happened-in-violence-hit-telinipara-west-bengal
According to the police and locals, the violence which broke out in this part of Hooghly district 40 kms north of Kolkata was a planned, systematically executed attack targeting the neighbourhood's Muslim residents...On the evening of Sunday, May 10, a small inter-community squabble broke out here, which was resolved by police intervention. Monday, May 11 passed without incident. Then, on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, a big mob descended on the locality and large-scale targeted violence followed.
Discussing The Violence In West Bengal & The Fake News Ecosystem | Himadri Ghosh & Seraj Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7tQhshtms As the violence erupted, images and videos began to be circulated on social media platforms, said to be depicting the violence in West Bengal. Many of these visuals were shared by leaders of the BJP. However, AltNews, the independent fact-checking website, has debunked several of these images and videos as fake. In this interview, The Wire's Seraj Ali discusses the repeated instances of post-poll violence in the state, the fake news ecosystem that surrounded it
But no government could function with just handpicked cheerleaders, and experienced bureaucrats stopped sharing their lifelong experience, out of fear, and the political savvy of ministers was treated with contempt. As the Cabinet system crashed and responsibility became opaque, India’s performance ranking in all internationally comparable indices started tumbling, every year. And the inviolability of statistics disappeared, as fudging began. Officers realised that only style and spectacle mattered, not substance. - Covid and the administration of a tragedy: How India lost the plot https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2021/apr/30/covid-and-the-administration-of-a-tragedy-how-india-lost-the-plot-2296633.html by Jawhar Sircar "I had the unique opportunity to observe from within the functioning of the Narendra Modi administration for over two years, as head of the national public broadcaster. I resigned before my term, when I could take it no more."
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2020/modis-ghastly-delhi-dream/?s=03
Modi is not merely a prime minister in the traditional sense: he regards himself as nothing less than the father of what his admirers call “New India”. It’s hardly surprising that a man of such staggering self-conceit would sooner or later seek to memorialise himself for the ages.