A recent speech by Dr Vinod Jose, the Executive Editor of The Caravan magazine, at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London, irked Prasar Bharati chief A Surya Prakash, who spoke from the audience at the same event and accused Jose of spreading misinformation and showing India in a bad light.
Subsequently, several Indian media houses published articles on Prakash’s retort to Jose, and each of their headlines had a variation of the phrase “Prasar Bharati chief slams Caravan editor” with some publications even terming Jose’s talk an “anti-India presentation.”
Now, in a strongly-worded letter to the governments of the United Kingdom and Canada, as well as to the organisers of the event in London, Jose has articulated his response, published by The Caravan in an article headlined, ‘Government and RSS branding dissenters as public enemies.’