Foreign media’s obsession with India is not new. They always portray India in a negative light and leave no stone unturned to malign India’s image with their lies and propaganda at a global level. The foreign media’s incipient hatred for India is very well known. Despite the fact that India has made significant progress since its Independence, the foreign media still presents India as a backward, land of snake charmers and many other derogatory labels are allocated to India. It shows the racist mentality of foreign media. The latest harbinger to malign the image of India is Thomson Reuters Foundation. While reporting a positive story about how ‘India has the highest number of women pilots in the world’, the publication could not hide its bigotry and racism, and ended up adding “patriarchal society which typically frowns on women in such jobs”.
India has the highest proportion of female commercial pilots in the world at 12 percent, despite the country’s patriarchal society, which typically frowns on women in such jobshttps://t.co/tSOWw4ryxg
— Context News (@ContextNewsroom) September 5, 2018
This bigoted statement came barely a day before an iconic picture of India’s defence minister and foreign minister- Nirmala Sitharaman and Sushma Swaraj- signing an epoch-making strategic deal with the USA, emerged. The picture alone is enough to prove the hollowness of ‘patriarchy’ nonsense. At a time when the USA is still struggling to get its first woman President, in India women served as the Prime Minister and President of the nation. In the incumbent government, there are many women cabinet ministers who are heading important portfolios. In the past as well, there have been many female rulers in India. In ancient India, women contributed immensely in writing scriptures. They had also participated in the battles to defend the country from foreign invaders. Women were part and parcel of entire freedom movement against the Britishers. And after the independence, women played a significant role in the development of the society and the country.
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But still, the foreign media portrays India as some sort of misogynist society and sadly enough some Indian journalists also help them to malign the image of India at global levels. In June, when Reuters published highly skewed and questionable article that India is the most dangerous country in the world many Indian journalists came in support and had shared and retweeted it. However, there were some patriotic journalists too who exposed Reuters’ agenda to malign the image of India.
For more details: Reuters claims India the most dangerous country for women! This could be the agenda behind it
Reuters is not the only foreign media outlet which is working to malign the image of India. There are many other foreign publications who are doing the same thing without any shame. New York Times had ridiculed India’s stand at the Paris Climate Summit where India had asked developed countries to make deeper emission cuts. Earlier also, New York Times published an offensive cartoon making fun of India’s success in its very first Mars Mission.
Not just American media, Australian media is also notorious for its anti-Indian rant .
India has been a proponent of renewable sources of energy as it helps to reduce the amount of greenhouse emission and thus significantly helps in reducing global warming. But, Australian media was quick to make fun of India’s novel initiative. They made a distasteful cartoon depicting Indians trying to eat solar panels.
