The WorldPress gives The Hindu's political affiliation as 'left-leaning independent', which is no more its affiliation. I sent the following suggestion to it on July 15, 2008.
http://www.worldpress.org/newspapers/ASIA/India.cfm
Hello,
I am a retired Professor of History, and a regular reader of The Hindu from about 1954 onwards. I feel that your assessment that The Hindu is a “left-leaning, independent” paper needs revision. Of late, its choice of topics for editorials and their slants, and the selective highlighting of events, political parties and personalities during the last one year are such that a reassement would be the first option. Or, it should be at least kept under observation.
A reassessment of the affinity of its readers also may be made. I feel that The Hindu is now cozying up to the Right. When the Editor-in-Chief himself chooses to interview the Right's self-anointed "Prime Minister in waiting", asking only soft questions and trying to please him with an out of context prediction that his party would come to power in the next elections, it cannot be seen as a simple courtesy.
At present, The Hindu gives prominence to the Left Parties also along with the Right, but that is not sustainable for long, because, the Left and the Right are poles apart in Indian politics. Especially in their views on religion. The Hindu, for all that one could read in its pages, has chosen to be on the Right.
Yours faithfully,
P.P.Sudhakaran
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