Thread by @Iyervval

Today Adar Poonawala donated 10 crores to an NDTV initiative. This was the same NDTV amplifying charges of cronyism and what not else, against him. The RW outlets that defended him got Zero. This is the extortive power of the Left cabal. Enjoy.

.this of course is exactly what the social climbing yuppies - the NaraynaMoortys do too - fund some “public minded journalism” fraud, to give a known “liberal” historian dispersal poets over money, which he then duly disperses to liberal outlets. In the process they don’t attack

Him or the shameless way he regained control over infosys. His son similarly donates to Hindu baiter Sheldon pollock to get a halo of “intellect” bestowed on him. All up doesn’t matter what dirty games the yuppie family gets up to, they’ll never be attacked by liberals.

This isn’t a one off. Several industrialist friends keep telling me “we pay them so that we can at least moderate or reduce the attacks” - mind you these are old money classy families who don’t have to do social prostitution like the Narayanmoothris do, but just pay to reduce the

Nuisance value. Obviously nobody will sue because they know a lot of governmental folk’s kids depend on these “intellectuals” for college admissions & the government won’t lift a finger to help them. Obviously the right has neither the ecosystem nor the investigative heft to do

Anything. Heck most BJP ministers would rather write in & share pieces by Indian Express & Hindu rather than anything by RW outlets (whose quality is anyway akin to shit). Imagine even modi, would rather be seen over & over with Malini Parthasarathy than any opindia editor.

For its part all Opindia can get is one or two out of favour, out of the loop spare ministers, while all cabinet ministers grace liberal “intellectual” events, interview & publications. Of course OpIndia is a bit of a D Grade brothel as its management themselves admit, but this

Power imbalance is so skewed that IE’s editor Raj Kamal Jha felt he could talk down to the PM at some function. Forget the fact you’re talking to a PM, even the basic courtesy of not talking down to people you invite to your event on your turf isn’t observed. But of course this

is exactly what the RW are - a bunch of gullible disposable condoms, used as such by the BJP. Somewhere Between the inferiority complex (& innate inferiority) of the right & the BJP it’s a kind of toxic relationship where both these chomus actually think their actions “matter”.

Mind you - this normative power isn’t actually based on quality - it’s based on pure cronyism - institutional capture plus chatterati norm setting. Which is why @Google & @SamsungMobile will happily partner with NDTV as a “prestige” project even though NDTV’s reach is nonexistent

https://twitter.com/abhinationalist/status/1434956565845479424

In fact there is a case to be made that most google & Samsung users would be android user, lower class, socially upwardly mobile “right wing” types who’d be abusing Roy & Pichai day & night. They’d be more likely to watch Republic or Times Now. Yet google & Samsung will go

With NDTV despite the demonstrably lowest possible reach, but rather that it open up NDTV’s network of government contacts & “high society goal posting” & preempts or moulds an editorial line that could be far far more damaging than anything the right can ever muster.

Mind you when the right does get into the game, like panchajanya did with the Narayan-Mooth-Ris, it’s usually the right that sabotages any movement in this direction. Obviously I don’t blame the left. They play this game superbly, across the “public sphere” from academia to media

The joke here is entirely on the duffers of the right, from their clueless leaders, their inability to game the systems, their delusions of the permanence of their power, the masturbatory celebration of their zero impact, dumb-fuck “publications”, their non-existent intellect

& their delightfully low class outlook which makes them such wonderful chaprassi stock, but little else.