Tweet #1:
https://twitter.com/OpIndia_com/status/1630749701430738944
This tweet by OpIndia addresses the arrest of several Christians in the Kurdeg village of Jashpur, Chhattisgarh a central Indian state. The tweet claims that there have been various reports in the region about the forceful conversion of Hindus under the pretense that Christianity would cure their medical ailments . In the article attached to the tweet, the report speaks on how the pastors were handed over to the police who are affiliated with the BJYM an Indian Hindu nationalist political party in the region. Throughout the article, the journalist characterizes the Hindu’s as helpless and innocent and the Christian pastors as intrusive. This article is the perfect example of political media biases that are filtered into social media websites. To an uneducated and uninformed twitter user in India, this is perfect bait for social and political tensions especially in regards to ongoing religious conflicts in India. With that being said, OpIndia is a verified account on twitter and seems to provide scanty and untrustworthy information for the sake of publicity.
Tweet #2:
https://twitter.com/RShivshankar/status/1630764968433053696
This tweet is from Rahul Shivshankar a popular Indian News Anchor. In the tweet he shows his disdain for the Islamic renaming of cities in Jammu and Kashmir, a highly disputed territory between India and Pakistan. He makes the argument that we don’t see the Spanish city of Toledo being named after their Moor conquerers during that period of history. This is an obviously Hindu sympathetic tweet, likewise a muslim reporter from India or Pakistan may not make such and argument. Nonetheless, this is further evidence as to how there are still widespread religious issues within India and in the disputed borderlands. His vocabulary highlights his animosity towards Muslims and is resemblant of an American conservative bashing a liberal. Furthermore, his stance is more ideologically fueled and leans towards Indian and Hindu nationalism as a whole.