Before picking up my bunch of newspapers this morning, I chose to open the iPad. The intention was to first check how Kolkata's The Telegraph depicted the 'United India Rally'.

The newspaper has created waves, secured kudos, raised eyebrows and collected heckles in ample measure over several years for blunt headlines critical of the Narendra Modi regime and its emblematic leaders.

Sure enough, the headline did not make it necessary to read the story, for it made the slant obvious.