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Ashish Shukla is an Indian journalist and author who has his new book:"HOW UNITED STATES SHOT HUAMNITY: Muslims Ruined Europe Next" released worldwide.
He also runs a website: www.newsbred.com which is antidote to boardroom bulletins that passes off as news by the mass media.
His personal website is: www.ashishshukla.net and he could be contacted also on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/authorAshishShukla/)
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 4, 2016 Mainstream Media's Bastion is Crumbling
The mainstream media is on fire at the rise of social media. Their bastion is crumbling. The ivory tower they are perched upon is swinging like a pendulum. Their cry now is to put a curb on social media which they are apt to term as "fake news" promoters. So much for freedom of expression.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 18, 2016 So, this is the "freedom" Indian media wants
Indian media increasingly looks compromised. There is an attempt to divide and polarize India on caste lines. Who benefits from this all?
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Not Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, as per The Hindu and Indian Express
There is a massive heart-burning in The Hindu and Indian Express today on the appointment of spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar by Supreme Court as one of the mediators in the long-simmering Ayodhya dispute.
Word almost similar against Sri Sri Ravishankar's have appeared in the Wire (through its editor Sidharth Bhatia), the Quint, the Scroll and of course National Herald.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, October 6, 2017 Kerala's Model of Growth: A whole nonsense
The dangerous policy of communalization is best reflected in Malappuram which is said to be a hotbed of Islamist terror and where law and order is practically absent. The ecosystem of NGOs, churches, madrasas and the Leftists in power feed each other.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 9, 2018 Spare us your history lessons, Dalai Lama
It's such a humbug from the 14th Dalai Lama to suggest that the 1947 Partition could've been avoided had Pt Jawaharlal Nehru accepted Mahatama Gandhi's offer to Make Mohammad Ali Jinnah as Prime Minister, the offer which was made to Viceroy Lord Mountbatten on April 1, 1947.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 20, 2017 How Express "curated" Roy's tweet
Indian Express could barely suppress its glee and smirk when today it front-paged a tweet by Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy which stated that "Hindu-Muslim problem won't be solved without a Civil War."
The front-page story was neatly curated. The report omitted that Roy had mentioned "The Great Calcutta Killings' of August 1946 and the "Noakhali Hindu Genocide" of October 1946 as a backgrounder to
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 16, 2017 MSM Fake News Monitor: Express on Akhlaq accused
Indian Express claims that National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has contracted a juvenile accused in the murder of Akhlaq, two years ago. NTPC denies having done so.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 29, 2018 Five essentials to nail lies on Veer Savarkar
Be witness to the "Hate-Veer-Savarkar" moment in blogs and social-media posts on his 135th birth anniversary on May 28. As the creator of "Hindutva" philosophy, the annual reviling of the man would be done in unison by TheLiars, Squint, Srolls and Duff-Posts; besides editorial pieces in "Journalism of Courage." In essence, these hacks and compromised academicians would take recourse to five issues to revile the man.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 26, 2017 Remembering Bankim Chandra and Vande Mataram
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee has his 179th birth anniversary on Monday (June 26, 1838). His poem Vande Matram was the soul of India's freedom struggle yet wasn't deemed good enough to be the National Anthem. A look at a few facts which have gathered dust over the years.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 5, 2016 After executions, Saudis heading UN Human Rights Council is a joke!
Saudi Arabia breaking diplomatic ties with Iran is meant to polarize Shia-Sunni camps at home as well as in rest of the region. It's going to boost the recruitment drive of Islamic State (IS).
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 8, 2017 Rahul Gandhi and the "colonized mind"
Congress' vice-president Rahul Gandhi says he has started reading India's sacred scriptures, Bhagwad Gita and Upanishads, to counter his political rivals, BJP and its parent organisation, the RSS. In showing his ignorance for India's sacred texts, thus far, he lets one peep into the Indian education system, which is meant to produce disconnected Indians with their past.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 12, 2019 Sorry Justice Chandrachud, I don't trust judiciary
All too often we hear our honourable judges speak about the "trust" the people of the country have in the institution of judiciary. I am one of the people and unfortunately I lack complete trust in judiciary, one of the four founding pillars of our democracy.
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, March 26, 2018 Why Mainstream Media wants to keep you "uneducated"
There is a good reason to believe that mainstream English newspapers in India keep masses uneducated. Most of it stems from bias. A lot has also to do because journos themselves are uneducated. They can't speak or write on any subject coherently. At best they are quote-renters. At worse, remotely controlled by compromised bosses, politically aligned. The whiff of money and power also keeps them drugged.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 3, 2018 Swami Sanand's death would sit heavy on Modi's conscience
We all need to go beyond the death of fasting Swami Sanand (October 11, 2018) and the disappointment he carried to his pyre at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's indifference to his demands for "Aviral Ganga."
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 1, 2019 How Rani of Jhansi escaped the Nehruvian hammer of oblivion
I happened to watch "Manikarnika--The Queen of Jhansi" in theatre the other day. Kangana Ranaut as the protagonist was a force of purity and leaping flame. Fleeting were the images of India's War of Independence of 1857 of which she was a leading light. It shook the East India Company and led to India's formal takeover by the British crown.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, August 10, 2018 Rahul-Kejriwal saga: What Lutyens Media didn't tell you
I bet most of you wouldn't know it. For most of you read Indian Express, Times of India and Hindustan Times. And none of them carried the news that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chose to abstain from voting on Rajya Sabha deputy chair on Thursday because Rahul Gandhi didn't made a CALL to Arvind Kejriwal.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, August 11, 2018 How the propaganda against RSS falls flat on its face
Indian Express has two voices that do not like RSS or BJP or Hindu resurgence in India. You scroll down articles of either Christophe Jaffrelot or Ashutosh Varshney and get the drift. Jaffrelot is more scholarly and dense; Varshney more sound and less substance. Both worked each other out badly.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 20, 2019 But then Sanyal, how do we keep 21st Century issues firmly in our gaze?
Sanjeev Sanyal posted a twitter thread on Saturday where he implored discussions on the 21st Century issues rather than being mired in historical characters like Veer Savarkar, Bhimrao Ambedkar and Mohandas K. Gandhi.