“Head-on | How Western media changed its tone after West Bengal landslide”, First Post, May 07, 2026

“The West’s legacy media has never made a secret of its animosity towards the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Soon after the 2024 Lok Sabha election, which reduced the BJP to 240 seats, The Economist wrote: “Modi’s illiberalism may imperil India’s economic progress.” London’s Financial Times warned that PM Modi has a “darker side” and discriminates against minorities.

British policy think tank Chatham House said that “democratic backsliding could eventually prompt Western nations to review their cooperation with New Delhi.” Bloomberg reported that the “progressive South is increasingly drifting away from the poverty-ridden north and its majoritarian leader.”

Much of the criticism before the five assembly elections in 2026 was based on what the bureau chiefs of foreign news media picked up from Delhi’s old ecosystem……”

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