The Western media tends to upend the reality, where democracy is projected as dictatorship, authoritarianism and fundamentalism invariably get whitewashed, and terrorism and human rights become interchangeable terminologies read more Author Umesh Upadhyay in his book, Western Media: Narratives on India from Gandhi to Modi, recalls “the summer of 1982”, when he was in Canada. In July that year, Giani Zail Singh was elected the seventh President of India. But to his “utter surprise”, there was no mention of India having a new president in the Canadian newspapers. This despite the fact that Canada had by then “a sizable Punjabi...