In case you think I’m picking on India Today TV, it’s not that other channels didn’t carry the news, but they did maintain some modicum of decency in their reportage, as far as I saw. Times Now maintained a calm demeanour – which is shocking in itself. There was a follow-up report after the first report announcing Banerjee’s death and body being discovered and a five-minute report with the headline, “Actor Pratyusha’s friends hint at foul play”. The report interviewed her neighbour, who had heard her crying on the same day, and her friends who feel that she couldn’t have committed suicide and questioned why her boyfriend had left her body at the hospital and gone away instead of staying there. There was no speculation or interviewing of random or unrelated people.