Holi as Toxin, Ramadan as Detox: Secular Media’s Asymmetrical Lens on Faith
The pattern that emerges from a decade of coverage in Bharat’s leading English‑language outlets is not accidental. From 2016 to 2026, at least 12 major media organizations have systematically framed Holi through the lens of danger, disease, environmental damage and public‑order risk, even as the same platforms, in the same season, portray Ramadan almost exclusively as a holy, healthy, serene month of fasting, spirituality and charity. This asymmetry is not about data or science; it is about narrative. It reveals a deeper ideological bias in which a Hindu festival is repeatedly medicalized and problematized, while an Islamic month of intensive ritual slaughter, mass food consumption after dark, and long‑hour dry fasting in hot climates is romanticized and cosmetically “health‑washed”.
Read more at: https://hindupost.in/dharma-religion/holi-as-toxin-ramadan-as-detox-secular-medias-asymmetrical-lens-on-faith/
- 5 Mar 2026
- WerIndia
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