Sanjeev Sanyal exposes atrociously biased NYT report that reduced 40-min chat to 2 words

Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Ecomic Adviser in Ministry of Finance, on Wednesday slammed a "biased" report by New York TImes after y quoted only two words by him in ir article for which y'd actually held a 40-minute conversation. Responding to report shared by Jeffrey Gettleman,  South Asia Bureau Chief for New York Times who along with Suhasini Raj, Sameer Yasir and Karan Deep Singh wrote  article titled ' virus trains: How lockdown chaos spread COVID-19 across India', Sanyal shared full recording of his discussion and said, "This can be used as a case study on how Indian officials can deal with biased Western media."

'I have full audio recording'

"Yes, your journalist did speak to me but article does t reflect conversation and uses an arbitrary two-word "quote". Would you like to hear conversation? I have full audio recording," ecomist tweeted. In ar tweet, Sanjeev Sanyal said that his whole conversation of 30-40 minutes was "about thinking behind India's policy response." He alleged that journalist was "t interested and she already had an nda to push a pre-decided story."

' journalist was t interested': Sanjeev Sanyal

"When I did t play along, she tries in last 10 mins to put words in my mouth," Principal Ecomic Adviser said. "Since I did t provide a quote useful to her nda, I was just given a two-word quote in article just to show that NYT gave all sides a chance. I am posting recording so that it can be used as a case study on how Indian officials can deal with biased Western media," he furr said.

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report also mentions that PM Modi government's COVID-19 task force is dominated by “upper-caste Hindus”, and claims that it didn’t contemplate how imposing lockdown will induce desperation, panic and chaos for millions of migrant workers. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan responded by saying that "t even in our wildest imaginations do we think about caste" and that task force’s members had been chosen for ir "competence, capabilities and intellectual abilities."

" trains became virus hotspots. Packed beyond capacity, y ran from India’s biggest cities, which were virus hotspots, to rural areas that had very few if any virus cases," Jeffrey Gettleman said as he shared report on Twitter. 

Special trains carrying migrant workers were flagged off from various cities on 1 May for first time since lockdown was enforced.  operation of se trains, however, led to a political mud-slinging, with opposition accusing Centre of charging fares from migrants and n Centre accusing some states having n-BJP governments of t providing permission for migrant trains to run. 

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