“FT interview of PM Modi: When a western media outlet got brutally exposed for its propaganda and lexical subterfuge”, First Post, December 22, 2023:

“Financial Times, the London-based daily that carried the “scoop” on an alleged plot by India to take out a Khalistani terrorist in the US, published a long, exhaustive interview of Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday on a range of issues, including the controversy that has driven a wedge between New Delhi and Washington.

There are several points about the interview that need to be highlighted, especially FT’s sly attempt to editorialise what should have been a straightforward question-and-answer format, disseminate disinformation and create straw man arguments to push insidious narratives, but before I highlight the British daily’s semantic chicanery and analyse the prime minister’s responses, one point must be made upfront.

In deciding to answer freewheeling questions from one of his toughest critics, a provocative, India-baiting lodestar among Western media outlets, Modi has demolished the notion that he shies away from the media…..”

Read the full article at Firstpost.com