Brace yourself, the elections are coming

The 2019 Lok Sabha polls are likely to feature the most vicious campaigning ever, with all sides gripped by fevered communalism

The nature of the news media is such that stories which become commonplace are demoted. They are not given the prominence that they would otherwise have got when they were atypical. “News” should be new stuff, not a repeat of the old. Of course that does not mean that the impact of the event not being reported reduces. If it is an episode that produces divisions and engenders hatred and a sense of injustice, then those who are aware of it and who are participants and observers and onlookers will not be able to escape the fallout and the ramifications