Special Editorial : Decisive Trial of the BBC

BBC – the British Broadcasting Corporation, a global media conglomerate, is second to none when it comes to Hindumisia and hatred for India. Other media houses such as The Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, TIME, and Al-Jazeera have all learned the tricks of this disinformation trade from the BBC. The BBC is the main purveyor of anti-India propaganda, which fuels the anti-India narratives that are so ubiquitous. The BBC has also continued to portray India as a nation of the poor, the wretched, and worse, adherents of Satanic cults (as they see Sanatan Dharma!). The BBC was born in 1922 as a public service broadcaster in England. Today, it reaches every corner of the world through satellite TV and the internet, shaping opinions and often creating them. So why are we discussing this 102-year-old media house? There is a documentary set to release on October 25th, which promises to expose the BBC’s insidious agenda against India. Titled BBC on Trial, the documentary was crafted through extensive research, insider perspectives, and interviews to lay bare the inner workings of this media behemoth. This documentary will broadcast on the Global Hindu Foundation, Prachyam, String Geo, and The Jaipur Dialogues platforms. The makers have also shared that they aim to release it in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, and other Indian languages soon.

Radical hatred of India

BBC plays an important role in the global anti-India deep state machinery. They have leveraged Goebbels’ principles of propaganda to paint Indians, Hindus in particular, as intolerant, violent and Islamophobic. This type of anti-India propaganda is not particularly new when the BBC is concerned. In 1970, they aired two documentaries – Phantom India and Calcutta – which presented a bleak picture of India. India, which had shed the shackles of British imperialism two decades ago, was progressing swiftly. Yet, the BBC decided to focus on poverty with these highly biased documentaries. Their anti-India stance regarding Kashmir is legendary. They leave no stone unturned when it comes to favouring Pakistan or showing jihadi terrorists in a sympathetic light.

In 1995, jihadis targeted Charar-e-Sharief (Budgam, Kashmir), reducing the shrine to ashes. The BBC in its report, showed visuals of Russian tanks bombing Chechnya, fueling rumours that the Indian armed forces had destroyed the shrine. This single example should suffice to expose BBC’s obnoxious propaganda. Author-Journalist Ashali Varma writes that her first experience with BBC in India was quite an awakening. The BBC’s correspondents were searching for news on rapes and mob lynchings which could make the headline. This obsession with digging up negative content on a vibrant nation of 140 crore people illustrates BBC’s ideological leanings. This anti-Hindu ideology was hard at work when in 2002, the BBC turned a blind eye to the Godhra massacre while playing up the ensuing riots to malign the then Gujarat CM Mr Narendra Modi. The same anti-India ideology was at work when BBC conferred the disreputable title of Rape capital of the world on Delhi after the Nirbhaya case. The documentary will seek to demolish the BBC’s prim and proper facade and expose the rot within.

The BBC’s duplicitous nature – Hindu gaurakshaks are vigilantes, while cattle smugglers are victims. Kashmir Files is anti-Muslim rhetoric, while PK is a fight against superstitions in Hinduism. Christmas, celebrated with over eight crore felled trees, is seen as a joyous occasion, while Ganeshotsav is considered harmful to the environment.

BBC Global Disinformation Team and BBC Verify are an exhibition in mental gymnastics for portraying anti-Hindu incidents as those resulting from anti-Muslim sentiments. They tried to pass off the hundreds of attacks on Bangladeshi Hindus and temples by Muslim fanatics in August 2024 as grossly exaggerated claims by Hindu activists saying, “The far-right videos distorting the truth of Bangladesh minority attacks!” Even when a Hindu Brajmandal Yatra was attacked by a Muslim mob in Nuh (Haryana) in July 2023, BBC reported that Hindu mobs attacked Muslims. It is unfortunate that the vast majority of Hindu society is ignorant of this international ploy and is gullible enough to consume this poisonous propaganda. BBC claims a weekly readership of around 8 crores in India alone. Imagine the kind of influence they wield!

Expel BBC

Israel did not take too kindly to Al-Jazeera’s sympathetic reporting on Hamas after the October 7th massacre and promptly shut down their offices there. Today, India has to fight a war of narratives and may want to take a leaf out of Israel’s book. BBC on Trial is a welcome step in that direction. Pt. Satish Sharma, President of Global Hindu Foundation, has relentlessly pursued every lead to create this documentary. He says, ‘For eight years, I tried to reason with the BBC office in London regarding its anti-India bias in reporting, but they did not pay heed. That is why I decided to create BBC on Trial’. This documentary may be the spark that will ignite a mass movement which will culminate in the expulsion of the bigoted, colonialist, anti-Hindu BBC from India.

It is the duty of every Hindu to participate in this fight against the BBC as it is the need of the hour