Ira Mathur’s anti-Modi and anti-Hindu posturing is nothing more that pandering for her supper. She simply wants to be in the good graces of her media fraternity. She knows who pay her bills and hence her outrage against Modi, the Prime Minister of India.
Geopolitical interests want a negative view of India and hence their hordes of journalists to sell that narrative. Dubbed the fourth estates, journalists do think highly of themselves. Like bureaucrats, they don’t face the electorate but want to shape policy. These journalists like Ira Mathur and those of the New York Times et al must understand that the people elect their representatives to parliament to debate and craft legislations to run their lives.
Modi understands the over reach of the media and hence his refusal to subject himself to an interview. Over the years the media in India and across the world have been in the hands of interest groups. It is those leaders that shape policies for writers like Ira Mathur to peddle to earn their few paisa and a meal in a five-star hotel.
Trinidad and Tobago is a haven for ambitious journalists who go at length to serve political interest. Some journalists not only wake up on the beds of politicians but have gone on to become their mistresses. I personally have no issue with such behavior which I understand is freedom to live one’s life as one chooses. However, such an individual should seize to pontificate on the right and wrong policies of government.
In Trinidad we use the expression ‘eat ah food.’ This is the best summary of journalism today. It has always been like this since time immemorial but never so blatant and obvious. I believe that crime would always be with us; however, if I have to engage in crime I would rather it be white and stylish like their bosses in the boardroom. Ira Mathur comes across as trying hard to keep her self white but the dirt and mock all over her body is unavoidable. It is as the saying goes- You just cannot play mas and be afraid of powder.”