In an interview, Kazuo Ishiguro notes that he portrays in his novels individuals that acquiesce to the tide of the times rather than resisting it. In Situating his An Artist of the Floating Worldand The Remains of the Day in the Post-2014 Indian “godi” (lapdog) media, and in exploring parallels between the narrator-protagonists of the novels and several English-language TV anchors of prime-time “debates”, the paper looks at how these influential figures fail to provide unbiased analysis, as their profession demands, but instead, grow into complicit roles and justify their actions, acting not only as propagators of majoritarianism but also as “gatekeepers” of information, thereby undermining democracy.
Keywords : Democracy, fake news, fascism, “gatekeepers”, “godi” (lapdog) media, majoritarianism