“Stuck in an Orwellian world: Liberal Western media, illiberal global agenda”, First Post, May 10, 2024:

“Author Umesh Upadhyay in his book, Western Media: Narratives on India from Gandhi to Modi, recalls “the summer of 1982”, when he was in Canada. In July that year, Giani Zail Singh was elected the seventh President of India. But to his “utter surprise”, there was no mention of India having a new president in the Canadian newspapers.

This despite the fact that Canada had by then “a sizable Punjabi population, so much so that some signage in certain areas was in Gurmukhi. If you happened to travel by Air Canada, there were announcements in Punjabi”. Yet, the appointment of the first Sikh President of India found no mention in Canadian newspapers.