March 5 (Independent) – A video of an Indian TV debate on Ukraine has gone viral after the host berated a guest for more than a minute live on air — before realising he was shouting at the wrong person.
The clip shows Rahul Shivshankar, a right-wing television anchor for the Indian news channel Times Now, scolding Bohdan Nahaylo, the chief editor of Ukraine’s English-language newspaper Kyiv Post.
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In the video Shivshankar appears to believe that Nahaylo in fact Daniel McAdams, the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, the other panelist on his show.
In the clip, Mr McAdams finally has to shout out to stop the debate so that he can tell the anchor the mistake that has been made.
The viral clip shows Shivshankar telling “Daniel McAdams” to “just take a bit of a chill pill”, before launching into his rebuke and telling him to “relax”. Nahaylo hits back by saying he doesn’t want to because “my country is at war”.
Believing he is addressing an American expert, Shivshankar says to Nahaylo: “Mr McAdams if you are so concerned about Ukrainians… get off the fence and send your forces and put boots on the ground. Don’t lecture us here in India, okay? I am not gonna hear your lecture. And if you have really problems (sic), then go tell the US president Mr Biden who flashes… who flashes his fancy credentials,” the news host can be heard shouting.
As cross talk continues between Shivshankar and Nahaylo, Mr McAdams himself can be heard saying, “I am not even talking”. He goes unheard by Shivshankar.
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