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Re:India’s second wave by dang on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @03:23PM (#26894256)
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It leads to flamewars, which are tedious and nasty.

Instead, you can add solid information in a neutral way; or it's always ok not to post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like you've done this repeatedly in recent months. That's not cool; please don't—regardless of how right you are, or feel you are, on the underlying issues.

Re:India’s second wave by murukesh_s on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @02:29PM (#26893610)
Not a single day goes without seeing critical piece appearing in one of the listed sites:

https://www.ndtv.com https://scroll.in https://thewire.in

All of the foreign sites which are often very critical of the government like Aljazeera and BBC are also freely available. Note that scroll and wire are very left oriented and highly critical of the govt. So you need to balance the news with other medias. Even well established news papers like thehindu.com (leftist, run by leftist student leader N.Ram) and hindustantimes.com (run by opposition party) are also very popular and critical of the govt.

Re:India’s second wave by nmridul on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:11PM (#26892475)
Even without government control, indian media is generally hesistant to publish (or delay the publication) large scale news that could create public panic. The news on mismanagement will start to come in few months once these things settle down.

During the initial weeks of first wave , the media was more supportive of the government lockdown. Later when they realised that all was under control, media started bringing out the lockdown as a blunder.