Role of Indian Newspapers in Communal Riots of Delhi: A Study of Web Editions of The Hindu

This study examined the role of an English national daily; The Hindu, on communal riots of Delhi happened on February 2020 and how this newspaper shaped the public perception during this time. This research highlighted the various angles prepared by researchers; which had been adopted by the paper at the time of reporting these kinds of sensitive matters. By doing corpus analysis through AntConc; of news riots related news from the web edition of the national newspaper; The Hindu. Researcher collected the data to analyze the variables like size of news, usage of images, framing, tone of content, and sources included in news. The findings of this paper shows that while sometimes newspaper dailies prepare an objective narrative but most of the times it crafts the reality which aligns with different political ideologies.