1 A certain Delhi based “journalist” is having a meltdown over not winning the @NobelPrize. She’d been told it was a “sure shot” & has been calling up people saying Modi pressurised Norway. She had an elaborate PR campaign planned this year including a @TIME story.
2 A major Delhi based editor had in fact told me in February this year, that there was in fact a campaign afoot because “it’ll be another 10-15 years before they look at journalism again”. Curiously a well known left-oriented investigative journalist confirmed that it was left
3 Journos who were campaigning furiously to deny her the prize. The left has been trying to distance themselves from her fables & fantasies for a while now, but they won’t attack her openly. However they knew it’s only a matter of time before her lies get busted & that would have
4 a devastating effect on the left-journalist ecosystem. Realising this, literally every single left media house had joined in the campaign to prevent this noted fabricator getting the award. Calls had been made to New York, London, Paris & Oslo at least since February when the
5 media community in Delhi got whiff of what was happening. So I guess the Modi government which was (as usual) clueless about what was happening, owes a huge thank you to its leftist detractors, who have saved Modi a major public embarrassment without him even knowing about it

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