After years of operating quietly behind the scenes, the sudden spotlight on Hiren Joshi, Narendra Modi’s long-time crisis manager, gatekeeper, and media strategist, has exposed how tightly power, narrative, and information have been controlled from within the PMO. From managing controversies like Modi’s degree questions to allegedly shaping media agendas, disciplining journalists, and guarding the Prime Minister’s image, Joshi’s rise (and apparent fall) raises a deeper issue than one individual’s fate. Was Hiren Joshi just a loyal aide who became expendable or does his unraveling reveal cracks in a system where democracy, media, and institutions were managed through one central command ?

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