“Meet Brown Sepoy Niha Masih: The Washington Post’s India-Basher-in-Chief”, The Commune, July 16, 2026

“From the shores of America to the corridors of Seoul, Niha Masih has built a career on a simple formula: criticise India, defend China, and frame every Hindu action as oppression while packaging Muslim victimhood as journalism. The Washington Post’s Seoul-based correspondent, a brown sepoy, has made India coverage her specialty, but her reporting reads less like objective journalism and more like a carefully curated narrative designed for Western consumption.

Niha Masih is an Indian-American journalist currently based at The Washington Post’s Seoul hub. Her coverage of India has focused extensively on Kashmir, Hindutva, surveillance, Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, and defence of China.

Masih received the 2022 Daniel Pearl Award for her series titled “India Under Surveillance.” The series reportedly claimed that evidence used to accuse Indian activists of plotting was “planted……..”

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