Ground Report: , West Bengal https://thewire.in/communalism/ground-report-what-really-happened-in-violence-hit-telinipara-west-bengal

According to the police and locals, the violence which broke out in this part of Hooghly district 40 kms north of Kolkata was a planned, systematically executed attack targeting the neighbourhood's Muslim residents...On the evening of Sunday, May 10, a small inter-community squabble broke out here, which was resolved by police intervention. Monday, May 11 passed without incident. Then, on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, a big mob descended on the locality and large-scale targeted violence followed.

Discussing The Violence In West Bengal & The Fake News Ecosystem | Himadri Ghosh & Seraj Ali https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7tQhshtms As the violence erupted, images and videos began to be circulated on social media platforms, said to be depicting the violence in West Bengal. Many of these visuals were shared by leaders of the BJP. However, AltNews, the independent fact-checking website, has debunked several of these images and videos as fake. In this interview, The Wire's Seraj Ali discusses the repeated instances of post-poll violence in the state, the fake news ecosystem that surrounded it 

But no government could function with just handpicked cheerleaders, and experienced bureaucrats stopped sharing their lifelong experience, out of fear, and the political savvy of ministers was treated with contempt. As the Cabinet system crashed and responsibility became opaque, India’s performance ranking in all internationally comparable indices started tumbling, every year. And the inviolability of statistics disappeared, as fudging began. Officers realised that only style and spectacle mattered, not substance. - Covid and the administration of a tragedy: How India lost the plot https://www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2021/apr/30/covid-and-the-administration-of-a-tragedy-how-india-lost-the-plot-2296633.html  by Jawhar Sircar "I had the unique opportunity to observe from within the functioning of the Narendra Modi administration for over two years, as head of the national public broadcaster. I resigned before my term, when I could take it no more."


Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/april-2020/modis-ghastly-delhi-dream/?s=03

Modi is not merely a prime minister in the traditional sense: he regards himself as nothing less than the father of what his admirers call “New India”. It’s hardly surprising that a man of such staggering self-conceit would sooner or later seek to memorialise himself for the ages.