The Ministry of Broadcasting, India, probably does not encourage any news coverage of the Muslim world in general and Middle East in specific. We have hundreds of news channels spanning across almost all the languages and states. (India is divided into states based on languages) but none of them bother to cover any news related to the sufferings of Palestenians, Israel's aggression against its neighboring Arab countries, nor the protests happening in Iran. The Indian media does not care to cover the brutal killings of the Iraqis by Americans (who btw, are there for restoring democracy.)
The most favorite punching bag for all the news channels in India is Pakistan and Taliban. They run stories of how Taliban is at the gates of India and how the sovereignty of India is at stake. They don't bother to cover the killings of the innocents, nor do they bring any positive stories from the Muslim world. Their only agenda has been to propogate that all muslims are terrorists. Any muslim with a beard, kurta is a terrorist. Any muslim going to pray is a terrorist. Any muslim following his faith religiously is a terrorist. Any muslim wearing a veil is a terrorist.
I beg to differ with the Indian Media and I urge them to honestly cover all the stories around the world. The world is not just limited to India, Pakistan and America. There are other countries, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia...rest of the world. We want to hear news from all these places. We have our friends and loved ones living there. We are emotionally related to our brethern. Please do not keep the world's second most populated country ignorant of the reality in the world.
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It's really surprising th read this aspect of India. Somehow I thought it differently...
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