Surjit Bhalla
Indian economist, author and columnist
Surjit Bhalla is an Indian economist, author and columnist, who is currently the Executive Director for India at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He was appointed as a member of the newly-formed Economic Advisory Council to the second Modi ministry, from where he resigned in December, 2018.
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- Media Dancing To Congress’s Tunes by Surajit Dasgupta - Jun 28, 2015, [1]
- “this is a bravado that comes out of a sinking ship,”
- “The consistency in the approach of mainstream media suggests there is coordination going on. Each person is not doing an investigation.”
- [The head of Oxus Investments finds Times Now given the most to hyperventilation followed by NDTV and India Today.] “They are immensely biased; they need to be exposed.”
- “I have said to these English channels that if there is an issue of national import, and not a local/Delhi issue, I don’t want to be there with an AAP guy. These channels — Times Now, NDTV and India Today — try to push these guys. What locus standi do they have? I just don’t understand. Basically it is to build up (a controversy to malign the government). This is something unusual. It cannot be that they can’t find anybody else. What I strongly feel and object to is that the news is much more biased than it has ever been. I have a lot of evidence to support that.”
