Indian Print Media and Muslims: Coverage of Coimbatore Bomb Blasts

"The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that is power; because they control the minds of the masses" - Malcolm X. The Coimbatore Bomb Blasts conflict has led the Tamil Muslims to face many troubles; until a few years back, only certain Muslim communities were ignored and isolated for this particular reason, while now it has actually spread to overall Muslim society in almost every district of Tamil Nadu. At the International level, only after 9/11 there were negative attitudes towards Muslims. But when Tamil Nadu is concerned, it has started probing from 2009 on the wake of Coimbatore Bomb Blast conflict. Media has played a vital role with regards to this matter and has induced people to use common words like 'Islamic terrorism', 'Muslim terrorist' etc. However, though the conflict ended up in 14th February 1998, the media keeps on inducing that the Coimbatore is an unsafe place to live in anytime disastrous, as before, because of Muslims.