44 - Salil Tripathi - Journalistic Integrity

For a comprehensive guide to Salil’s work, see:
http://www.saliltripathi.com/Welcome.html

Salil’s articles for Mint:
https://www.livemint.com/topic/salil-tripathi

Salil’s article for Caravan:
https://caravanmagazine.in/author/93

Salil’s books can be found here:
The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy (2016):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300218184/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

Detours: Songs of the Open Road (2015):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A59F3J8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1

Offence: The Hindu Case (2009):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906497389/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2

You can follow Salil @saliltripathi on Twitter.

Further References

Letter:
https://letter.wiki/conversations

The Impossible Conversations competition:
https://www.impossibleconversations.info/

The conversation on Antifa and political violence:
https://letter.wiki/conversation/59

My accounts of letter exchanges in Areo can be found here:
https://areomagazine.com/author/terpsichoral/

Roger Cohen’s article on Kashmir:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-modi-houston.html

Isaac Chotiner’s interview with Roger Cohen:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-times-columnist-roger-cohen-on-the-future-of-india

Salil’s article on the Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan:
https://caravanmagazine.in/media/question-journalists-support-for-armed-forces

Modi’s article on Gandhi:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/modi-mahatma-gandhi.html

The Indian Penal Code:
https://indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/2263?view_type=browse&sam_handle=123456789/1362

Salil Tripathi on M.F. Husain:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303714704576383173779641758

M.F. Husain’s work:
https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-f-husain
Salil on the Modi myth: https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/minds-modi-myth

Meera Sanyal on demonitisation:
https://www.amazon.in/Big-Reverse-Demonetization-Knocked-India/dp/9353023947

Salil’s obituary of Meera Sanyal:
https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-lessons-from-an-old-friend-that-india-s-public-life-should-imbibe-1548259689773.html

Salil on whataboutery:
https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/5nErFTVfxk0UPN2WT9QpAI/The-role-of-a-writer.html

Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on Indian freedom:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45668/gitanjali-35

Jon Lee Anderson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson

John Pilger on Cambodia:
http://johnpilger.com/videos/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia

Vajpayee’s speech calling for the destruction of Babri Masjid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Nvqqx5_Po

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980)

Timestamps

3:25 Letter and the Impossible Conversations competition
8:45 The portrayal of India in the domestic and international media, esp regarding the situation in Kashmir
14:40 Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan
19:00 Recent coverage of India in the foreign press
23:50 Lynchings and the Modi government
27:40 Trump versus Modi
32:33 Free speech and the Indian penal code
37:00 The Modi myth
43:00 The injustices of Indian bureacracy
46:12 Indian whataboutery
51:32 What inspired Salil to become a journalist
53:10 Salil’s journalistic icons
54:30 The biggest challenges facing journalists today
1:06:42 Salil’s predictions for the future of journalism in India