A Critical Discourse Analysis of Islamophobia in Indian Print Media

Abstract

The present study critically analyses the headlines of Indian English newspapers and it investigates how the Indian media is involved in portraying Hindutva doctrine and shows Islam and Muslims negative. In this research work, the two Indian English newspapers The Telegraph and Voice of Words have been selected. Official websites of these newspapers have been visited for data collection. The present study is qualitative in nature. The researcher has used Van Dijk socio-cognitive model to analyze news headlines of Indian English newspapers. The present study is delimited to two Indian English newspapers headlines, The Telegraph and Voice of Words. The study is delimited to three months i.e. January 2022 to March 2022 has been allocated for both the newspapers and the data has been extracted, from which elements of Hindutva and Islamophobia have been found. After critically analyzing all this data, the researcher has found that these newspapers are strongly promoting the policy of Hindutva.