Lies, lies, lies...

When people lie, the Indian media just laps all of that up and regurgitates them on the reader or viewer. This is first of a periodic collection of such lies, half-truths, canards, unverified facts spread through the media.

There is nobody as minister from the North East. 

• A union minister is a minister of the Union of India. The minister represents the people of India and not his or her state. It is not a quota system out there.

Both the hosts Sri Lanka and Windies can win the T20 World Cup. Yeah.

• But you don't need a sports desk reporter in a suit to tell you that. Right?

India's  natural resources and their exploitation belong to the poor.

• When the media continued to pound our senses with this blatant lie, nobody bothered to check. Those who have read the Constitution of India knew that the natural resources belong to the Indian State and it can utilize them for the benefit of the nation and its people. People do not have inalienable rights to natural resources, unless specifically stated in law.

In Japan all nuclear power plants were closed following the Fukushima accident, and the government has decided to close all nuclear power plants by 2030.

• No media mentioned the fact that most of the Japanese nuclear power plants went offline, and 2-3 were working.

FDI in retail will make Indians eat more junk food.

• As if Indians are not eating junk food at all now.