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David Devadas

Hectoring doesn’t win friends or influence people. Indian anchors on Ukraine need to learn this

Let’s call them bull-anchors. You decide whether that’s short for bullish anchors, as in bull markets, or something else.

So, during their respective programmes on the war in Ukraine, two of Indian television’s shrillest bull-anchors got slapped down by participants. One became viral comic relief after yelling at the wrong panelist, repeating the wrong name ad nauseam, during a rant. (Do they really think naming panelists in taunting tones is a rhetorical putdown?)

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