About The Other Side

Why this page exists

Somewhere along the way, news stopped being something we read and became something we pick — like a jersey. Your feed learns which side you're on and quietly stops showing you the other one. We found that troubling. Not because either side is evil, but because most of us never actually see what the other half of the country is reading.

So we built a machine that reads both sides so you don't have to. For every story we cover, it collects what one set of newsrooms said, what the other set said, and what the plain facts appear to be — and puts all three next to each other. That's it. That's the whole page.

Why "BJP-critical" and "BJP-leaning"?

We tried "left" and "right", and honestly, those words don't map cleanly onto Indian media. The real fault line in our news runs through one question: how does a piece of coverage treat the current government and the party behind it? So we name the groups by what they visibly are on a given story — coverage that leans critical of the BJP-led government's side, and coverage that leans towards it. It's blunt, but it's honest, and every reader instantly knows what it means.

How we classify — reporting, not ideologies

This is the part we care most about getting right. We do not put newsrooms in permanent boxes, and we're not interested in anyone's ideology or politics — including our own. The machine reads each individual article and asks one question: how did this specific piece frame this specific story? A paper that's usually critical of the government can file a perfectly straight report, or even a favourable one — and when that happens, that's exactly where we count it. The groups you see on our posts are groups of articles, formed fresh for every story, never a verdict on the outlets themselves.

Every post we publish is listed on this site with links to the actual articles it was built from. Don't take our word for anything — that would defeat the purpose. Read the sources. Pick your own truth. 🙂