WEBDESK: When Pakistan delivers one diplomatic blow after another to India, raising the Kashmir issue on international platforms, amplifying Khalistan voices in the West, and seeing Modi’s government under fire in global media, the Indian public is conveniently distracted. Enter “Mann Ki Baat,” a monthly radio spectacle designed to shift attention from uncomfortable truths.
According to Azaad Research, this program has now become nothing more than a propaganda tool.
Each month, Prime Minister Modi presents himself as a saint and paints India as a “Golden Nation,” while the ground reality tells a very different story, curfews in Kashmir, oppression of minorities, farmer suicides, and growing diplomatic isolation are hollowing India from within.
But these uncomfortable facts are not discussed. Instead, “Mann Ki Baat” arrives like a curtain, hiding truth with yoga, tea stories, and emotional tales.
After facing setbacks from Pakistan, the Modi regime doesn’t scare its people with the idea of an enemy, it scares them with the truth.
And so, every month, only one voice is broadcast across the nation: Narendra Modi’s. He speaks at the people, never with them.
Only one voice, no dialogue
“Mann Ki Baat” is a radio program aired on All India Radio, Doordarshan, and digital platforms, promoted as a bridge between the PM and the people.
But in reality, it’s a one-way broadcast, an effort to dominate the national narrative with one man’s voice.
The program has evolved into a political weapon.
Whenever there’s a lockdown in Kashmir, when Dalits are lynched, when Muslims are beaten on the streets, or when journalists are silenced, those are the times when “Mann Ki Baat” floods the airwaves with talk of peace, development, yoga, and success stories.
Now in its 123rd episode, the fundamental question still remains: is it really the voice of the people, or just the Prime Minister’s self-praise and unilateral messaging?
Propaganda in the guise of democracy
Each month, this show is sold as a medium for public engagement, but in truth, it feels more like state-run propaganda, packaged in the language of democracy but soaked in the scent of autocracy.
Real issues, rising prices, unemployment, shrinking freedom of speech, minority oppression, are nowhere to be found in its script.
In the latest episode, Modi once again called yoga a pillar of national development, as if wrapping the wounds of jobless youth with yoga will solve anything.
When the economy is shaky and degree-holding young people are wandering without work, yoga sermons come off as a cruel joke.
Mann Ki Baat: But whose voice is being heard?
Democracy demands dialogue. But in “Mann Ki Baat,” there are no questions, no criticism, no accountability, just one man’s monologue.
No journalists. No public interaction. No pressure to respond. It mirrors the mindset of a ruler, not a representative.
This monthly program increasingly resembles a government commercial.
Modi presents himself as a charismatic savior while using public funds to build a narrative that aligns only with his vision. It’s clever marketing, not genuine conversation.
And it shapes public thinking under the illusion of engagement.
Claims of global popularity are hollow
The government claims “Mann Ki Baat” is loved worldwide.
But there is no credible data to support this, no independent surveys, international reports, or global media endorsements.
The same claim is repeated by government-run agencies without any proof, simply to cover the truth.
Today, “Mann Ki Baat” does not represent democracy, it represents the suppression of it.
It gives the illusion that the people are being heard, but in reality, it amplifies only the ruler’s voice.
This program does not speak for the nation. It only sings praises of one man.
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