so today we're going to talk about the
long-standing bias that exists in
organizations like the BBC against India
and we're also going to talk about how
this bias is leading to people in India
around the world
and in their own countries losing faith
in these organizations my name is Sean
Sharma welcome to the Sean Sharma show
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hello and welcome welcome to another
edition of the schaumschau Marr show
thank you very much for joining me today
thank you very much for watching I
appreciate you so organizations like the
BBC they've always had a strong bias
against India this has been in place
since the Indians got independence and
these people always seem to focus on
India as a country which has a huge
problem even though there are countries
around the world engulfed in civil wars
massive civil rights violations and
things like that but India seems to be a
large focus of a lot of these
organizations when it comes to painting
countries and negative light in fact
they've also started to show this kind
of bias towards their own people now so
whenever there is an issue these
organizations tend to paint a one-sided
picture of that issue and when they're
talking about India's worth they're
specifically talking about the Hindus
they talk about how the Hindus are
horrible people whose sole goal is to
persecute the minorities persecuted
women and persecute everybody around
them so when an incident actually
happens rather than talk to
organizations that represent Hindus as
well like say well like HSS like the VHP
there's tons of organizations that they
could talk to they don't talk to you the
organisation's and they go talk to the
Communists they go talk to the leftists
and they go talk to the Islamists who
already have a bone to pick with the
Hindus and it's so interesting because
it's in the 60s when people started
realizing that you know all of these
cultures had been so irreparable harmed
by European greed like the Native
Americans like tons of African cultures
the Incas and the Mayas and even a lot
of Muslim cultures so all of these
cultures then got a seat at the table
where their voices can be brought out
and their voices can be given their due
but for some reason one of the cultures
there was one of the worst sufferers
under colonialism was somehow omitted
arguably the country that paid for
Britain's Inn
revolution India the country that paid
for Britain being able to maintain such
an expansive Kingdom was also India and
for some reason of people that were
persecuted so harshly do not get a seat
at the table and do not get their voices
heard why is that I believe the reason
behind that is that the Indians had the
audacity to bloody survive not only did
they survive they managed to remain in
control of their country unlike a lot of
other countries where the Europeans
controlled them like Australia New
Zealand America in India all the
Europeans eventually left and the
Indians regained control of their
country and of their destiny and that is
something that has never gone down well
with these organizations oh these
savages make my upper lip ever so stiff
so that translates into that bias as
well whenever there's an incident that
happens in India they're not gonna go
take the Indian side of the story into
it they're going to talk to people like
Arundhati Roy they're gonna talk to
people like ramachandra guha both of
these people have a deep-seated dislike
for India's native culture in our own
dirty noise case she has a deep-seated
dislike for India proper she calls next
cells Guardians with guns she calls the
Kashmiri terrorists freedom fighters
those are the kind of people that the
BBC goes to to take interviews and to
give their opinions about India what the
hell kind of narrative are you expecting
from them a few years ago people
remember that documentary that came out
India's daughter that made a lot of
headlines in India and made a lot of
headlines overseas as well the
documentary was made by the BBC after a
horrific horrific rape of a young girl
in Delhi but when BBC came up with a
documentary it wanted to portray a
narrative that somehow rape and sexual
assault was only a massive problem in
India it was not a problem anywhere else
as big as it was in India they tried to
paint this narrative that India is the
rape capital of the world and that a
rape happens in India every 22 minutes
actually some news leaked recently that
what happened was when the movie was
initially screened in Delhi they were
also talking about other incidences of
sexual assault in other parts of the
globe to give proper perspective for
example in Britain the official crime
survey for England and Wales in 2014
estimated that there are 85,000 rapes
every year or one every six minutes the
equivalent figures in u.s. suggest that
1% of all women are sexually assaulted
each year or one every 25 seconds but
when the final version
emerged all of these bits of news was
removed and the narrative that was
trying to be pushed was that India has
the rape problem India only has a sexual
assault problem India is this some kind
of rape capital of the world
having said that I completely also
understand to give proper context and to
give full perspective I completely
understand that there are many cases of
rape in India that probably do not get
reported I also understand the due to
India's large size of the population a
smaller number of rapes or a smaller
proportion of rapes than the US and the
UK can still result in a larger number
of absolute cases I also understand both
of these things but having agreed to
that as well you cannot say that this is
just solely an Indian problem there are
tons of cases all around Asia all around
the Middle East that also go unreported
and the BBC documentary also tried to
paint a picture that somehow gang rape
is acceptable in India and that's the
narrative that they tried to push but
again looking at British statistics
according to the Metropolitan Police
more than 15% of rapes reported in
London each year involve three or more
attackers so again I am just saying that
trying to paint this whole narrative
that India is some sort of a rape
capital of the world is again a false
narrative and it just shows the amazing
amount of bias that exists in
organizations like the BBC towards
countries like India and towards a
section of their own people and it's
very rich from an organization trying to
talk about the problems of sexual
assault and the problems of rape in
other countries when their own failings
allowed Jimmy Saville and Stewart Hall
to sexually abuse nearly 100 people
without detection for decades really
these ever just seemed to have a raping
problem oh hi Jimmy Savile go ahead they
did the same thing in couture wear
without waiting for all the information
to come out without waiting for all the
evidence to come out they started
painting the picture that it was some
sort of a conspiracy by the Hindus to
ethnically cleanse the Muslims from the
Jammu area of which there is not nearly
enough evidence so without getting all
the evidence without actually talking to
the people involved without talking to
the people there without trying to find
out the entire story they just tried to
paint this picture that Hindus are these
horrible people they've done the same
thing with Modi as well Modi a guide
that was democratically elected in an
absolute majority
by the people of India BBC has been on a
years-long witch hunt against Modi as
well BBC doesn't like to talk about a
lot of riots in India but it cannot stop
talking about the 2002 riots and also
they don't like to tell the full story
of the 2002 riots about how the riots
actually started when there was an
attack by a Muslim crowd on the
Sabarmati train were 56 Hindus 32 of
those were women and children were burnt
alive like animals nobody likes to
mention that and there's reasons for
this as well you know like a senior
editor of BBC is sitting in London and
they send their correspondents to India
and they've never set foot in India
themselves so they have a certain idea
about India and they're expecting their
correspondents to send them articles and
send them pieces of news that conform to
that idea then even the foreign
correspondents that spend time in India
spend about 3 to 5 years maximum and in
3 to 5 years living in just the large
metropolitan cities like Delhi you're
not gonna get an idea of what India is
and who the Indians are living in Delhi
you go to the same cocktail parties with
the same journalists and the same people
and you hear the same kind of a
narrative the narratives like secularism
all minorities are in danger Hindu
fundamentalism human rights in Kashmir
saffron terrorism and things like that
and so that is why even while
acknowledging the massive bias that
exists in organisations like the BBC we
still as Indians have to take a large
share of the blame for that as well
because it is often the Indian
journalists it is often the Indian
mainstream news media that gives the
information to the BBC and to all of the
other international outlets that is
where a lot of these international
outlets get their news and their
narratives from and when the mainstream
media is pushing the narrative that
Hindus are evil India is an evil country
Hindus are an evil population then that
narrative is obviously going to seep
into overseas mainstream organizations
as well so again our own people create
more problems for us than overseas
people have recurred and then again that
narrative and that bias is coming back
to bite the BBC in the ass because you
can see now that among the Hindus of
Britain and among their own people
organisations like the BBC are quickly
losing credibility many Hindu
in the UK have said that they've lost
complete faith in the BBC and even many
British people who want to save their
culture and who want to preserve their
culture are losing faith in the BBC
because those people are being painted
as xenophobes and racists and
by the BBC I love that the BBC loves to
report on sexual abuse in India as soon
as it happens but it actually turned a
blind eye and it actually tried to cover
up massive cases of sexual assault like
Rotherham where 1,500 young girls were
sexually abused by predominantly
Pakistani Muslim men that incident was
ignored by organizations like the BBC
for years and even when it was covered
Pakistani Muslim men that were involved
in these grooming operations who are
being referred to as Asians no it's not
a gang of Vietnamese Korean and Japanese
men that are going around sexually
assaulting these women it is a gang of
Pakistani Muslim men and Roslin wasn't
the only grooming case that they ignored
there are scores of other cases all
around Britain that the BBC continued to
ignore as well until people like Tommy
Robinson started fighting to bring these
pieces of news into the public eye and
he started calling out the mainstream
organizations like the BBC on hiding
covering up and ignoring these pieces of
news and that is why organizations like
the BBC hate Tommy Robinson and hate the
people that follow Tommy Robinson not
just Indians who are trying to preserve
their culture but even British people
who are trying to preserve their culture
are seen as horrible people by
organizations like the BBC and that is
showing among the UK population as well
because in 2017 the percentage of people
in the UK who said that they trusted the
media fell to 24% so only 24% of the
British population now trust the media
it is important that we recognize this
bias and it is important that if anybody
from Britain is watching this that there
are linkages here and that we need to
talk about this bias together together
as the British together as Indians and
together as a British and Indians
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