African ambassadors in the Indian capital too are upset with the Indian media, this time for underreporting.
“I have been in India for over four years, but I have not seen a single front-page report on Africa,” rued the ambassador of an important African country.
Complained another envoy: “My prime minister visited India recently. I didn’t find a single line in a dozen newspapers my office subscribes to.”
The Indian media’s neglect of Africa stands out in sharp contrast to the Western media that reports African developments regularly, albeit from their own perspective.
“You guys are obsessed with just three-four countries,” an envoy from an African country cribbed to a journalist at a party. No prizes for guessing which countries he was referring to!
