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He rounded off with The results of this are all around. As a famous band once sang, If you plant ice, youre gonna harvest wind. This (Covid-19 second wave) is a whirlwind. Maybe he had read an excerpt from Indias Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution by Sanjay Baru, media advisor to Manmohan Singh when Singh was Prime Minister. Narendra Modi used Indias media elite for his own advantage, says Baru, hardly being original!

Mind you Sanjay Baru is no less media elite. Baru knows it, too, the clout that comes with being "media elite." His book is that of an insider taking us through the maze of press, power and politics. He breaks the essentials down to basics. Do medias close links with politicians give it clout or deprive it of credibility? he asks, and then answers with: It would appear that almost every media group takes a trade-off between the two sacrificing some credibility for either money or power.

Baru in his role as media advisor to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must have been keenly aware of this trade-off. He did not cotton to certain journalists, especially to the one who, he says, is idiosyncratic and unabashedly partisan and pro-Modi, who is otherwise a thorough professional and personally amiable fellow. The amiable fellow is easily identifiable.

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On the defensive, PM Modi shifts gears and with 2024 far away, hopes to get out of the hole he has dug - National Herald