Barkha Dutt: belief

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…If I’m a Westerner, where should I go in Western media to find the relatively better coverage of India? Or is that impossible? I would say just don’t go to any one source. I think that a lot of Indians would say that the more diverse your sources are, that would perhaps be more representative. But we would also urge you to read and watch and listen to us. I think there’s also a sense that there have been some great foreign correspondents, and I’d like to name two who have done stellar work on India: Ellen Barry of the New York Times and Annie Gowen of the Washington Post. Both made it a point to do very, very textured reportage out of India. But those are individuals I’m naming, and not platforms. I don’t think that there is a platform that really captures the nuances and the texture of my country in full. I have so many questions about India for you. In your earlier book, This Unquiet Land, you described India as, and I quote, “essentially misogynistic.” What do you think is the most deeply rooted structural account of how that came to be?…

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