When we started journalism in India, it swung dangerously towards the pendulum of politics, and pure straight reporting drowned in the rigmarole of manipulation to highlight the politicians’ stories. The mesmerized mobs received news reports without reasoning or reckoning until finally, some people realized they were being hoodwinked by falsified facts.

In the past decade, easy accessibility to all portals of the Internet suddenly flooded across the world causing the download of information overwhelmingly heavy, leaving people bewildered as to what to believe in anymore. The whites and blacks of journalism were muted by shady undefined greys.