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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday took a dog on the mainstream American media, including The Washington Post, for their "biased" coverage of India. "I look at the media. You know, there are some newspapers you know, exactly, what they are going to write including one in this town," Jaishankar told a gathering of Indian-Americans from across the country amidst laughter and applause. The prestigious Washington Post is the national daily published from Washington DC and currently being owned by Jeff Bezos of Amazon. "My point is there are biases, there are efforts really, to determine, . Look the more India goes its way and the people who believe that they were the custodians and the shapers of India lose ground in India the more actually, some of these debaters gonna come outside," Jaishankar said responding to a question on the increase in anti-Indian forces in this country. Such groups, he asserted, are "not winning in India." Such groups, the minister noted, will tr