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Swapan Dasgupta Quotes

born 1955 India

Swapan Dasgupta (born 3 October 1955) is a senior Indian journalist.

India
Journalists

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I don’t think that this arrest will either frighten or silence Arnab Goswami. It will enhance his appeal and make the Shiv Sena and Congress appear ridiculous.

The US hates having to admit it was ever wrong.

Some people (cabal members) who thought that they had a monopoly over truth and over wisdom found that the masses didn’t agree with them…These people are now confused …and want to say that they’re the repository of the entire truth and everything else is false consciousness.

"An atmosphere of hate was systematically built up. The whole purpose of it was to suggest that only one community has a veto over decision-making in India"

In 2008 or 2009, I approached a leading publisher with a proposal to write a political study of the Modi phenomenon. Their editor got back saying that the staff was horrified at the very idea that a sympathetic study of Modi should even be considered.

This is the state of the Bengali media. There is no free media, in fact, it is not even the media, they are just typists for the state government.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Swapan Dasgupta (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.