Unlike the readers of the novel, the viewers of the primetime debates learn not in hints and oblique suggestions but vividly. Talking about how the media has abandoned its role as speaking truth to power, Ravish writes that the media poses questions, not to the current dispensation but the Opposition, adding that “News is suppressed, manipulated, manufactured with impunity” (2019, p. 11). Whatever little agency Indian people had, he suggests, “they have surrendered it to the powers about whose true intentions they know next to nothing” (2019, p. 12). The author blames not just the political authorities but also the people, as he states, that probably never before in the independent history of India has there been this “degree of faith in political authority and such an appetite for non-news and fake news” (2019, p. 12).