Indian Media Splinters Over How to Cover Adani Indictment

After US federal prosecutors charged Gautam Adani and several associates with fraud, media coverage in India has ranged from dryly factual to over-the-top in its defensiveness, revealing a divide over how to appraise bribery accusations against one of the nation’s richest businessmen.

Most mainstream Indian newspapers on Friday splashed the charges across their front pages. In an editorial, The Times of India wrote that “Indians will have a wearying sense of familiarity when it comes to allegations about underhand deals.” The newspaper, one of India’s most popular, opined about whether the latest controversy might change how business is done in the South Asian nation, broadly concluding that the culture was unlikely to change.