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Several studies exploring the sociology of news have identified and established a range of factors that influence journalism and shape media narratives. However, little has been known regarding the narrative construction in the English language broadcast media in India. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between (re)emerging right-wing nationalism and English language television journalism in India. A qualitative thematic discourse analysis was conducted on the monologues on Republic TV and Times Now's primetime debates during the India–China border conflict, 2020. The study reports a major shift in the nature of TV journalism in India: far from being passive observers of right-wing nationalist ideology in the 1990s, TV journalists in contemporary India are acting as active participants in propagating them. The study complements existing works on sociology of news by demonstrating how journalism is shaped by dominant political sentiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A protean notion around the conceptualization of Hindutva and Hinduism has long been a matter of debate among scholars interested in the politics of religion and the religion of politics in India. In other words, a large section of the TV media in India seems to apply Swamy's ([6]) definition of Hindutva as their point of reference of Hinduism and views no difference in the two concepts. Decoupling Hindutva from Hinduism The books could be broadly divided into two parts, with the first attempting to define the Hindutva/Hinduism conundrums and the second appealing to the authors' political constituents. [Extracted from the article]