DHAKA, Oct 11, 2024 (BSS) - Academics, journalists and intellectuals at a seminar today underscored the need for developing people-to-people interaction and understanding between Bangladesh and India to make up for the miscommunication being taken place through media campaigns. So, we should develop more contacts and engagements with Indian civil society members, bureaucrats and common people," said the speakers. In the seminar, the academics and intellectuals also stressed the need for developing new and effective Bangladeshi narratives and counter flow of information against the Indian narratives centering the mass-upsurge and the country's minority issues. Political analyst Zaheed-Ur-Rahman said the way some Indian media outlets portrayed the July revolution and post revolution events is the reflection of its continued practice of spreading disinformation about Bangladesh in the last 15 years. Journalist and fact checker Qadaruddin Shishir said even before the student-led mass upsurge, there have been cases that maximum of Indian media outlets were spreading misinformation and disinformation over some significant events of Bangladesh.
