01451pab a2200181 454500008004000000100002000040245004200060260000900102300001600111362001000127520093100137650001501068650002001083773003401103909001001137999001701147952010501164180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSinha, Dipankar  aKargil episode in Bengali print media  c2002  ap.2803-809.  a6 Jul  aThe mass media have a significant role in facilitating the construction of both the public sphere and democratic politics and can aid in the shaping of people's orientations, beliefs and attitudes. In the multicultural setting of India, the construction of public sphere is a complex affair in which the mass media play a critical role. What if at a crucial point in the life of a democracy the supposedly democratic option of the media creates trends which effectively contributes  to the refeudalisation of the public sphere? This paper seeks to examine how two vernacular newspapers - Ananda Bazar Patrika, a privately owned newspaper with the largest circulation in West Bengal and Ganashakti, owned and controlled  by the Communist party Party of India-Marxist, which has ruled in West Bengal Since 1977 - contributed to 'reformulating' the public sphere during the Kargil 'war', from late May to July 1999. - Reproduced.  aMass media  aKargil conflict  aEconomic and Political Weekly  a52975  c52975d52975  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 37, Issue no: 27pAR53409r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR