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The fires that Indian news television lit

What will it take for TV news in India to get its act together?

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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
It has been a bloody week for India. Assam, West Bengal, Tripura, Kerala, Delhi, Mumbai among others saw protests against the pointless Citizenship Amendment Bill. Sadly, some of these turned violent. The why and how of it seems to be lost in the babble of noises on television, newspapers and social media.
 
And that brings me to the point of this column - the complete failure of media, especially TV, to inform the debate around the bill, to educate and calm the rising tempers. What will the Bill do? What does proving your citizenship mean? Except for newspapers, a
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