Is The Hindu biased in selection of special articles for publication?

Answer to the above question is: YES. Then, it is our responsibility to prove our assertion. A golden opportunity was made available to us to prove our point by just going through the Hindu Newspaper of March 1, 2016 – carrying the various news items of Central Budget – 2016-17. Its Heading “A Pro-Poor Push in hard times” on the first page, its editorial “A message aimed at the heart of India” and even its cartoon along side its editorial are all well balanced, neutral, unbiased and even praising the budget for its push on the rural and farm sectors – though the Hindu said that it was due to a series of assembly polls coming up.

But all special articles published in the same date paper – 1. Just another trivial budget by Ashok V. Desai 2. By no means a ‘socialist budget’ by G. Sampath 3. Nothing radical or revolutionary by Arvind P.Datar 4. Why the Budget numbers don’t add up by Rohit are all against the budget.  The views and opinions expressed in those articles are quite contrary to the views in the Editorial and the Hindu had not so far got articles from any other persons having a contrary views expressed in those 4 special articles till date.  For all practical purposes, the views expressed in the editorial can be taken as the views of the paper in general and hence to present a balanced view to the readers as the oldest English paper of high value and repute, the paper should have published articles in tune with its editorial views. The paper should have done it when they had chosen to publish the above 4 special articles and having failed to do so, the Hindu may be accused of its biased mindset in selection of articles.

On reading the paper, this aspect struck my mind and hence I am sharing my concerns.