Recently, BBC Trending featured a story about an Indian website that was going viral that prompted men to gift their wives a maid in the run up to Diwal. It is customary to exchange gifts during this period. The website prompted a huge online discussion regarding sexism.

BookMyBai.com: "Diamonds are useless! Gift your wife a maid."

BBC, a company that is funded by taxpayers, is notorious for their obligation to remain unbias in their reporting - although some may disagree that they fulfill this expectation. As you might expect, BBC did offer an unbias report when convering the story stating both:

This shows the BBC covering the "negative" side of the story and the criticism that the ad has received.

This shows the BBC discussing the perspective of people who consume and support the website, suggesting that the website is a good service regardless to the ad.

However, the story continued past the initial controversy and exposed other aspects of the company that were seemingly "dodgy" or "corrupt":

The website courted further controversy when the website Scroll.in  how BookmyBai.com allows its clients to pick domestic workers by religion and region. "Profiling domestic workers on grounds [of] religion, region is discrimination, stop it," said prominent women's rights campaigner Kavita Krishnan. But another user countered: "Why not pick them by religion or region? If I like Malwani food..."

Overall, the BBC offered a generally unbias report regarding the story, taking into consideration other factors rather than simply just the story at hand. I believe that the website ought to further be looked into to reveal any other corruptions or discriminatory, bigotry behaviour and should receive the appropriate media backlash dependent on the findings.