Six people have died in the communal violence in Haryana so far, and our TV news brethren have been all over it. On primetime shows on News18 India, Times Now Navbharat, Republic Bharat and Aaj Tak, anchors grilled Nuh’s Meo Muslims, the police and the administration for the roles they played.
But in their line of questioning, most news anchors chose to bypass the part played by Hindutva organisations and the impact of a provocative speech made by a Bajrang Dal activist accused of murder. They also skipped local Muslims’ accounts of what happened.
