Prajakta Kale
Political Analyst at The Balanced News
Prajakta Kale is a political analyst at The Balanced News who tracks how Indian media frames political events. She specializes in election coverage, party manifestos, and legislative analysis across the political spectrum. Prajakta is the named reviewer for TBN's coverage of politics, national affairs, and international stories — she checks the AI-generated bias breakdown against the actual coverage on each beat, validates that left/centre/right framing is being attributed to the right outlets, and flags edge cases where a story's framing is more nuanced than a single bias percentage can capture. Her work focuses on how language choices, headline framing, source selection, and which voices are quoted differ when the same political event is reported by national English dailies, regional-language outlets, and digital-first publications. Prajakta tracks election cycles at state and central level, parliamentary debates, party-position evolution between manifestos and statements, judicial-political intersections, and the meta-coverage question of which political stories get sustained attention versus which fade after the first news cycle. She is especially attentive to coverage gaps — events that one set of outlets cover prominently while another set ignores — because those gaps are where the Lens Score reveals the most about Indian media's editorial priorities. Prajakta also writes long-form analysis for /insights on durable framing patterns and recurring vocabulary across the Indian political-media landscape.