Thread by @jamewils

Sitting in Hyderabad, the Deccan Chronicle journalist paints a crystal-clear picture of what happened in the heights of Ladakh, courtesy “inputs” from “multiple sources”.

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And, at 12.27 pm on Sunday, June 21, Asian News International, the video news agency to which Narendra Modi has given the most number of “interviews” since coming to office, tweeted its version.

And at 4.34 pm, India Today’s Shiv Aroor reported that there were three skirmishes in Galwan Valley on the evening of June 15, with 16 Chinese fatalities.

But before Deccan Chronicle, before ANI and before India Today, at 9.23 am on June 19, Bhaavna Arora, an “Army brat” turned writer, had woven a 13-tweet thread.

Ayush Tiwari, a journalist at News Laundry, joined the dots between Ms. Arora’s tweets & the Deccan Chronicle report.

But, wait.

The day before Ms Arora’s tweets, on Thursday, June 18, the journalist David Devadas, who has authored two books on Kashmir, wrote of the Bihar Regiment’s bravery on the web portal, rediff.com.

All the Bihari stuff may play to the BJP base with access to Made-in-China mobile phones in Bihar, but it got to some Biharis. Sankarshan Thakur, the Delhi-based national affairs editor of The Telegraph, called it “crude and cynical”.

And there is a world of difference between English media and Hindi media, at least this time!

On Monday, most English newspapers had seen through “Surender Modi”.

So a week after the killing of the 20 Indian soldiers, if India’s position has to be summed up, it is this: Nobody intruded. Soldiers died. They fought hard. We won’t be provoked. Bharat Mata ki Jai.

We have weapons of mass DISTRACTION 🤣

Let not India’s “surender” mislead you into thinking that India has won the Corona war. The battle against Coronavirus is very much on, even as several European countries report that rates of confirmed #COVID19 cases are increasing again.

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Everybody loves the same heroic story

The valour of the Bihar Regiment in Rediff, Deccan Chronicle, India Today and ANI

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