Swarajya magazine’s Swati Goel Sharma has comprehensively documented the deep bias in media reporting on hate crimes and alleged lynchings of minority groups. Sharma identified three aspects of such bias—first, the reliance on English language news reports to construct narratives and databases; second, the disporportionate focus on minority victims of Hindu violence while often ignoring Hindu victims of minority violence; third, the dishonesty of categorising motives based on the already flawed selection.66
