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Rajiv Shah's news blog is a modest attempt to reflect and assimilate the happenings observed from close quarters, even as banking on and reporting on information available in official as well as unofficial, alternative sources. 
The sources of this site are not necessarily those on which the "mainstream" media heavily relies upon – the ruling establishment, economic or administrative.     
This site is inspired by the view expressed by litterateur George Orwell, who said, "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations." 
This site's idea first emerged in 2011, when Rajiv started blogging for the Times of India. At that time, he was the paper's Gandhinagar representative, looking after the Gujarat government, as the paper's political editor.
Rajiv formally launched it in February 2013, a month after he retired from the TOI. In TOI's blogging site, he wrote more than 80 blogs till 2017, published in his True Lies blogging platform. Thereafter, he wrote blogs, news stories and articles mostly in this site.
Readers are welcome to freely comment, react, or criticize what has been published in this site, or send matter useful for him to write on here: counterview.in@gmail.com.
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