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dated February 20, 1954: India in British Press

Four studies in Press relations between India and two other countries have just been published by the International Press Institute under the title "As Others See Us". In these studies, four foreign correspondents — two Indians, a Briton and an American — record their impressions of how their countries are reported in the countries where they are stationed. The two Indian correspondents look at the news of India as it appears in the Press of Britain and the United States. In Britain, according to Dr. K.S. Shelvankar, of The Hindu , there has been "a complete and salutary change." He writes: "The image of India as the mysterious East, an incomprehensible alien civilisation liable to sink into chaos and misery but for Britain's firm hand, is gone... We have now, in its place, a more realistic approach and a projection of India as, so to speak, a normal country with more or less normal problems which it is trying to tackle in a rational and intelligible fashion."

American editors, in the opinion of Mr. K. Balaraman, of The Hindu , "generally seem interested only in Indian news items belonging to one or other of these broad classifications; of a bizarre or outlandish character; or if they have some bearing on the East-West struggle and Communism; or if they are connected with American economic aid; or disasters.

This is the general picture that emerges; an over populated country of backward and superstitious people, living in conditions of poverty, disease and starvation.

A chronic famine country having a government with leftist proclivities. Only American financial aid and technical knowhow saving the country from falling a prey to Communism."

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