Thread by @ssudhirkumar

She quit in 2011, came back in 2013, quit again in 2016, came back in 2017, & quit again in 2023.

For most of the past decade, she was in powerful & influential positions – Editor, Director of Editorial Strategy, & Chairperson.

A thread on why her complaint below is hollow

https://twitter.com/MaliniP/status/1665665725099565056

If one were to do a pre-Malini and post-Malini comparison of The Hindu, the "entrenched bias" that @MaliniP talks about, was actually entrenched during her powerful tenure.

The paper had become virulently anti-BJP under her tenure. Sample this article by her in 2018. (1/n)

During her powerful decade, the story of Muslim girl being denied rental accommodation was made up. No apologies.

A detailed article on "Corporate-Hindutva alliance" was published (to achieve what ends?)

Tried to foment trouble by saying Muslims of being bludgeoned. (2/n)

During her powerful decade, The Hindu normalised communal and electoral violence if it was done by groups it liked.

Stone throwing was "protesting".

50 people die in WB. It's a "grim turn" and "high cost".

Call terrorism became "Pro-Afzal slogans" (3/n)

Govt deregisters more than a lakh bogus companies; we are told that this was a "veiled threat to comply with law".

Published an entire article suggesting "bold reforms". Only problem is that all of them were already implemented!

serious--fun.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-hi… (4/n)

"Don't read too much into data" was her suggestion when the economic data was looking good.

Mikhail Gorbachev died, we are told how India is doomed economically

Her senior editor went on a rant after he was called out for poor data interpretations (5/n) serious--fun.blogspot.com/2017/10/this-s…

During Malini's powerful tenure, abrogation of Article 370 was a watershed event. Her entire team went bonkers and wrote article after article after article on how India has failed.

They undermined violence against Pandits by calling it an "expulsion" (6/n)

Another watershed event during her tenure was the CAA - She blamed PM Modi of listening to only one side of the story. And then went on to publish lies and about 50 articles in just 10-15 days with only one side of the story.

Detailed rebuttal (7/n): opindia.com/2020/01/the-hi…

She was Director of Editorial Strategy when the infamous #CropItLikeTheHindu scam happened.

The entire newspaper was invested into fudging data to show Rafale as a scam- serious--fun.blogspot.com/2019/03/mr-n-r… - and they are all yet to apologise for all of these lies. (8/n)

Under Malini's powerful tenure in the past decade, The Hindu has also normalised undermining election results whenever BJP won. Went to the extent of calling 2019 as an "intoxicating verdict".

But when Opposition wins, there was simply no limit to praising the leaders. (9/n)

The affinity towards covering Rahul Gandhi is a lesson on how to be more loyal than the King. All of this great coverage of RaGa despite all of his failures, happened during Malini's powerful tenure.

If this is not bias, then what is? (10/n)
opindia.com/2023/02/the-hi…

The elitist disdain is evident in how Malini was thrilled that PM spoke in English with her. Pre-2014, she asked if we want a PM who cannot speak English.

She commissioned multiple elitist pieces to criticise all efforts to modernise Indian Railways. (11/n)

There are many many more examples of how entrenched the elitist bias against Prime Minister Modi has become in The Hindu under Malini's powerful tenure.

Pointing out this bias was looked down upon. Today she claims the same bias 😂Her complaint will have ZERO buyers! (12/12)