The desk

Tathya Post is a small operation, and it is better to say so plainly than to write in the voice of an institution that does not exist. The news sections gather reporting from established newsrooms. The Briefs are written here — 16 of them so far, in English and Hindi — and this page exists so you know what that means and who to hold to it.

What we are accountable for

We are accountable for everything published under the Tathya Post Desk byline: the facts in it, the sources named at the bottom of it, and the decision to publish it at all. We are not accountable for the accuracy of stories that appear in the news sections — those belong to the newsroom that reported them, and every card names that newsroom before it shows you the headline.

How a brief gets written

Every factual claim is traced to a source before it goes in. Where a figure is contested or varies — a panchang timing, a state RTI fee, a bullion rate — the piece says which source it followed and that others differ. Where a story is based on other outlets' reporting rather than on anything we witnessed, the piece names those outlets and says so in as many words.

Nothing here is generated and published automatically. An automated news writer would eventually repeat a viral claim that was never true, which is the opposite of what this site is for. The GIVA campaign row in our briefs is a small example: the story was real, and a widely shared claim attached to it was not.

Corrections

If something we wrote is wrong, tell us through the contact page and we will correct it and say what changed. If a story in a news section is wrong, the correction has to come from the newsroom that reported it — tell us anyway and we will drop the item.

Rights holders can have their feed removed from this site on request, without argument and without delay.

What we do not do

No sponsored stories, no payment to feature an item, no arrangement of any kind with the publishers we carry. No reproduction of another newsroom's article text — a story page shows a headline, a picture, a summary and the opening of the report, then sends you to the people who did the work. Government press releases are the single exception, because they are issued for republication.

The full rules are in our editorial policy, and the reasoning behind them is set out in how we choose sources.