P. Sainath delivered the 22nd Safdar Hashmi Memorial Lecture on 15th October at Studio Safdar. He spoke about the state of Indian media now, and the deep impact corporate houses has had on it. He took jibe at the manner in which the surgical strikes were reported. It completely exposed the biases operating in the indian media now.
“Any vestige of spine vanished in the last 35-40 days”, he said.