Media Sells Hate. China Buys India - Nishant Verma

Nishant Verma is a political analyst and one of India’s most unfiltered voices on media propaganda, foreign policy failure, and the mythologies shaping modern nationalism.

Finding clarity in India’s information wars is hard. Nishant maps how the attention economy turned journalism into spectacle, why independent analysts still carry truth to power, and how awards, influencers and platform incentives launder propaganda into everyday culture. We examine reels, outrage and distraction, oligarch capture of media, and why the country’s most serious risks are economic rather than theatrical geopolitics.

Expect to learn why he refused party spokesperson roles, how TV debate formats manipulate attention, the mechanics of state messaging on social platforms, what the Operation Sindoor panic revealed, how awards and creator prizes manufacture consent, why platforms profit while most creators do not, the social costs of reels and short form, what labor realities say about morality and language, how privatized profits and socialized losses warp markets, why media ownership conflicts matter, what the alleged BRICS speech blackout signals, why India’s China problem is economic not military, which regional leaders are actually delivering, why moving the capital south could rebalance power, how economic stress fractures families and nations, what a post Modi succession might look like, why Amit Shah is the most likely heir inside the BJP, how fear keeps citizens silent, and what courage scaled across a public can still achieve, and much more.

If you want a clear map of propaganda, power and economics in today’s India, this conversation delivers practical, uncomfortable clarity you can use immediately.

📌 Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro/Highlights - Nishant Verma x Kintu Parantu
00:05:27 - Independent Voice, Not Spokesperson
00:09:00 - From TV to Attention Economy
00:12:30 - Spectacle Culture Shapes News
00:16:15 - Early Warnings on Social Media
00:19:01 - BJP’s Playbook: Harness Virality
00:24:03 - Awards, Padmas, and Propaganda
00:29:43 - Reel Culture’s Hidden Costs
00:33:12 - Platforms Profit, Creators Rarely
00:38:19 - Obscenity Demand, Media History
00:44:23 - Labor, Morality, and Abuse
00:50:06 - Reels, Referendums, Fearmongering
00:53:16 - Arnab’s Profit, Nation’s Decay
00:55:23 - Living With Omnipresent Distraction
00:58:19 - Can Tech Solve Poverty?
01:01:04 - Media Panic: Pakistan Night
01:04:02 - Oligarchs, Media, And Democracy
01:08:09 - Privatized Profits, Socialized Losses
01:12:16 - Sold Newsrooms, Learned Helplessness
01:13:13 - Freedom Then, Fear Now
01:16:35 - Leaders Preferred: Stalin, Mamata
01:19:18 - Move Capital South, Tame North
01:21:36 - Economy Breaks Families, Nations
01:23:06 - Modi Deepens Fault Lines
01:25:01 - China Threat Is Economic
01:26:32 - BRICS Blackout, Media Silence
01:27:54 - Power Persists; Successor Calculus
01:29:18 - Amit Shah Scenario, Yogi’s Ceiling
01:31:14 - Hindu Rashtra Agenda, Treason Talk
01:37:10 - Economy First; Media Flips Sides

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