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The Evil Nexus of Indian Mainstream Media. #Thread #HatFacts
Romesh Thapar (Journalist with TOI) is the brother of Romila Thapar (Marxist Historian) the Marxist historian. General Pran Nath Thapar, sometime Chief of Army Staff, was his paternal uncle (father's brother), and the journalist Karan Thapar is his paternal first cousin. (1)
Thapar was also related distantly to the family of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru's niece, the writer Nayantara Sahgal, was married to Gautam Sahgal, brother of Bimla Thapar, wife of Pran Nath Thapar. (2)
Vir Sanghvi's father and Romesh Thapar were friends. (3)
Prannoy Roy is married to Radhika Roy. Radhika is the sister of Brinda Karat. Brinda is the wife of Prakash Karat. Pronoy Roy is Arundhuti Roy's 1st cousin (4)
Brinda Karat's teacher was Devaki Jain. Devika Jain is NDTV anchor Sreenivasan Jain's mother. (5)
Sreenivasan Jain's father (LC Jain) was appointed by IK Gujral as Indian High Commissioner to South Africa and recalled by AB Vajpayee. LC Jain had not effectively defended India's decision to conduct the Pokhran II tests. (6)
Vishnu Som of NDTV is the son of Himachal Som. Himachal Som was then made Indian ambassador to Italy by Cong govt. Reba Som is the mother of Vishnu Som. She is an 'eminent intellectual'. She has written books about Nehru and Congress. (7)
Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today (formerly CNN-IBN and NDTV before that) is married to Sagarika Ghose who is currently with ToI and ET Now (formerly CNN-IBN).(8)
Sagarika Ghose is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, who was appointed as Director-General of Doordarshan by Cong govt. Bhaskar Ghose has been accused of doing financial favors to NDTV, his son in law's employer (9)
Vidya Vilas Purie co-founded India Today in 1975. V.V.Purie created Thomson Press along with Lord Thomson of Fleet. Poorie's daughter Madhu Purie Trehan, co-founder, became the Editor of India Today. Poorie's son Aroon Purie, co-founder, became the Publisher of India Today. (10)
Koel Purie Richet is Aroon's daughter.Koel hosts a talk show on Headlines Today.Headlines Today is 24-Hr English TV channel owned by India Today group. (11)
Ankoor Purie is Aroon's son. Ankoor is the Managing Director of Thomson Press(I). Kalli Purie is Aroon's other daughter. Kalli is COO of India Today Group Digital. (12)
Nidhi Razdan daughter of Maharaj Krishan Razadan who was the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of PTI (Press Trust of India) (13)
Suhasini Haidar is the daughter of Subramanian Swamy.
Suhasini Haidar is the daughter-in-law of Salman Haidar. (14)
Shashi Tharoor is the son of late Chandran Tharoor.
Chandran was a journalist working for Amrita Bazar Patrika of Calcutta. Chandran headed "The Statesman" in 1959. (15)
Ishaan and Kanishk are twin sons of Shashi. Ishaan Tharoor works for Washington Post. Where he pens "Today's Worldview," a daily column on global affairs. (16)
Kanishk Tharoor works for "OpenDemocracy" and works for BBC and is the senior editor at "Foreign Affairs". (17)
Shobhana Bhartia is the Chairperson and Editorial Director of Hindustan Times group.
Shobhana is the daughter of KK Birla; granddaughter of GD Birla. KK Birla joined INC in 1984. Shobhana served as a nominated member of the Rajya Sabha, she was nominated by Sonia Gandhi. (18)
Ramoji Group is headed by Ramoji Rao. He is Founder & Chairman of Eenadu which is the largest Telugu news daily. Ramoji Group also owns ETV Network.
ETV Network produces content in Telugu, Bangla, Marathi, Kannada, Oriya, Gujarati, Urdu & Hindi. Extremely close to CB Naidu (19)
N Ram. A world in himself and microblogging can not do justice to providing the details. A little snippet of the Kasturi family that controls The Hindu Group of publications.(20)
N Ram's first wife Susan was a freelance journalist, an editor for Oxford University Press publications in India. N.Ram and Susan's daughter is Vidya Ram. as an intern at The New York Times, a reporter at Forbes and is the European Correspondent at Business Line. (21)
N.Ram, Jennifer Arul and K.M.Roy participated in closed door Catholic Bishops Conference of India in Thrissur, Kerala. Jennifer Arul is the Resident Editor and Bureau Chief in South India for NDTV. (22)
Jennifer Arul also writes for the Hindu board member of the New York based global media project (23)
K.M.Roy was a reporter in ‘The Hindu’
K.M.Roy is the General Editor of the group of the ‘Mangalam’ Publications.
Mangalam Group of Publications was started by M.C.Varghese. (24)
K.M.Roy received the ‘All India Catholic Union Lifetime Award’. All India Catholic Union’s National Vice President is Dr.John Dayal. (25)
CPI(M)'s senior member of Politburo and Parliamentary Group Leader is Sitaram Yechury. Sitaram Yechury is married to Seema Chishti. Seema Chishti is the Resident Editor of Indian Express. (26)
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