Are western journalists and correspondents biased towards India?
When India’s space agency ISRO launched a successful mission to Mars, prior to the 104 satellites sent in the first week of February, the New York Times ran a demeaning cartoon, showing an Indian farmer with his cow, knocking at the doors of the Elite Space Club.
And this triggers an important question: 70 years after Independence, are western journalists and correspondents still biased against India, a country they are supposed to report honestly about, so that their readers, who are mostly ignorant, get enlightened?
Well, from a western correspondent himself, the answer is…YES.
There are four reasons for that sad fact:
1) India is never in the news in the West unless there is some major catastrophe or huge elections. Thus, if you want to write and be published, you have to ...