Politics and Media Control
This article is reproduced with permission from the media watchdog " The HOOT ". This website, is in my opinion required reading for all those interested in the working of the Indian media. The original artilce can be found here . Politics and media control BY ADITI ROY GHATAK and PARANJOY GUHA THAKURTA A cartoon in The Hindu (that predates the current Ambedkar cartoon controversy) depicts the West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, trying to calm down a bunch of jubilant students, saying “I banned Marx, not marks”. Trinamool Congress chief Banerjee’s ire is primarily directed towards her arch political rival, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), whose mouthpiece, Ganashakti, which she does not want the State-funded libraries to subscribe to. There are many others on her list, especially after cartoongate. The point here is not about cartoons but that West Bengal has a pronounced culture of political parties (in the Opposition, from distant yesteryears to ver...