Debates concerning the undermining of the values of democracy and the ascendency of the anti-democratic ones worldwide seem highly likely to rise in the various forums of the world, particularly in India, as the covid-19 fast spreads across tight-knit borders. As BJP’s coming to power in 2014 described as a combination of four elements that are seen to be recurrent the world over: “populism, nationalism, authoritarianism, and majoritarianism” (Chatterji et al., 2019, p. 1). Since 2014, most of the national media in India, “the Fourth Estate, more far important than they all” [other three estates], of democracy, has ignored the vocation it holds in speaking truth to power (Carlyle, 1872, pp. 06–10). As such, for instance, in India, it has been complicit in its role as “godi” (lapdog) media by contributing to moving “the needle”, writes Chatterji et al. (2019), “decisively toward the consolidation of a Hindu nationalist-majoritarian polity” (2019, p. 06).