Union Minister Jitendra Singh explains the idea of intellectuality

The Minister of State for Jitendra Singh emphasised that today it is no longer unfashionable to be a pro-India journalist.
Speaking at the News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) conclave, the minister said “There was a trend of sounding intellectual by being slightly anti-India. And that somehow the mind-set stepped in that it was synonymous with intellectualism.”
He attributed the problem to “our legacy of carrying the hangover of fuel past”. He said that people, in an attempt to be unorthodox, adapted a mind-set of criticising India. The minister highlighted that even the most advanced nations never indulge in such acts.
He narrated the story of a veteran journalist turned politician, Inder Jit, who questioned former U.S president Lyndon Baines Johnson on the integration of some American states when he raised the Kashmir issue.  The then president refuted the question, calling it a closed chapter.
Singh referred to Kashmir as a closed chapter and questioned the stance adopted by the Indian media, saying “in the Indian media, somehow, it became fashionable to open the closed chapters and not let any chapter close down. So even if you had to discuss Kashmir, you had to discuss the North-East.  You had to discuss it with the narrative, which would appear as if India is at gross fault or committing a sin by taking a position”
He congratulated the NBF for ushering in an era of journalism which changed the narrative of equating the idea of being intellectual with being anti-Indian.