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