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Foreign Ed @the_hindu ; Author: The Comrades & The Mullahs, & The ISIS Caliphate; Visiting Prof. at KREA University; Adjunct Faculty at ACJ; Tweets are personal.
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India is not a client state of any great power. It's not part of any alliance system. The world's 2nd most populous country & the 7th largest economy, it'd not like to be told in public what it should do and what it shouldn't. Daleep Singh missed this vital point in Delhi.
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I don't get why India is being singled out and attacked by DC--right from Biden--and some analysts/media over its neutrality on the Ukraine war. Israel, America's top ally in WA, is neutral; UAE, which hosts US troops, is neutral. Turkey, a Nato ally, hasn't joined sanctions.
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Canada has the intel capacity to conclude that the Indian state was involved in the killing of the leader of a Khalistani outfit but it didn't know someone who had been living in the country for decades was a Nazi before inviting and honouring him in its Parliament?
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India, known for its precolonial architectural marvels, has since 1947 built an economy that's now bigger than its former colonial masters. It's built universities, hospitals, dams, airports, metros & what not! But contemporary Churchills are still obsessed with the beauty of VT.
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Trudeau's allegations are based on the intel gathered by his agents & an investigation is on. Even if the allegations turn out to be true, it is quite unusual for a PM to raise them publicly naming a friendly country & expelling its diplomat. It shows the current status of ties.
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The last 15 years were the best for India-Bangladesh cooperation after a long period of chaos. Hasina was a stable force. She was hated by the Pakistanis. She fell out with the Americans. But she effectively balanced between India and China. Her ouster is a setback for India.
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Is this tweet about what the Chinese are doing on the LAC?
India’s sovereignty cannot be compromised. External forces can be spectators but not participants.
Indians know India and should decide for India. Let's remain united as a nation.
#IndiaTogether
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda
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One myth about Israel is that it is surrounded by enemies. The fact is that no Arab country has attacked Israel since 1973. In 73, Egypt did so to get Sinai back. In 1978, 1982 & 2006, it's Israel that attacked Lebanon. In Palestine, it faces resistance because it's the occupier.
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The importance of
#SuezCanal
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Look at the map. It connects the Red Sea, and thereby the Indian Ocean, to the Mediterranean that opens into the Atlantic. If the Canal is shut, ships from Europe will have to sail along the Cape of Good Hope in Africa to reach Asia, & vice versa
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Xi might have skipped the
#G20
summit to send a message to India--or not to contribute to India's limelight with his high-profile presence. But by doing so, he's dented his own image as a statesman & denied himself a important multilateral platform. India stands to lose nothing.
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This photo will destroy your ego, at least for a few minutes. We are nobody in this universe.
#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope
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The US is not only providing free jabs, but also incentives to the vaccinated. You can walk in to the nearest pharmacy & get the shot. With the vaccination card, you'll get discounts at stores, or even cash payments.
Here, govt is reluctant to give even GST relief for vaccines.
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Poverty in India
Bihar has the highest share of poor -- at 52%, followed by Jharkhand (42%), UP (38%) and MP (37%). Kerala has the least, at 0.7%. It's 4.8% in TN, 12% in Andhra and 13% in Karnataka. Source: Niti Ayog; Map from The Hindu.
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The US standing with Canada, its ally and neighbour, in a row with India, its partner, is quite understandable. But the Americans telling the Indians that "trans-national repression' is not acceptable is a joke for anyone with a modest understanding of history.
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Biden has launched universal free adult vaccination; put money in the hands of Americans; proposed the largest spending programs since New Deal; and now decided to back a waver of
#IP
for vaccines. If you ask what Bernie Sanders has achieved from his lifelong activism, it's this.
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called the father of Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters photographer killed by Taliban, & conveyed his condolences to his family, friends & colleagues. Ghani termed his death a great loss for the journalism fraternity: President's Secretary
@azizamin786
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"What the Indians need—what they really need—is... a mass famine,” Nixon, on India hosting millions of refugees from East Pakistan. His administration was backing the Pak Generals who were butchering Bengalis.
“They’re such bastards,” replies
#Kissinger
, about Indians.
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Trump: 'I wish I had a reporter like that... where do you find these reporters?'
Modi: Broad smile.
India Today: Trump praises India Today. Gold standard of journalism.
# ThisIsNotATroll.
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Wang Yi, China's foreign minister, came to India last week to invite Modi for the Brics summit. Modi didn't meet him. Britain's Liz Truss came to India yesterday, asking it to join hands with the West against Russia. Modi didn't meet her either. Today, he met Russia's Lavrov.
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If the protests and the police crackdown were on a campus in India, Turkey or Russia, you would have seen independent journalism in the American press.
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Hasina is in exile, her party leaders are hiding, party offices stormed; the CJ was forced out, VCs are forced to leave; journalists are being arrested, diplomatic passports are cancelled and minority communities are directly targeted.
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The man who walks on the water.
Kerala getting ready for the World Cup.
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Being
#SheikhHasina
is not easy. She survived a massacre just because she was not in the country. She fought the dictatorship of Ershad. She beat the BNP & Islamist JeI. She remained a fighter even after she took power. All the best Prime Minister for the fifth term.
#Bangladesh
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Had
#India
stayed invested in
#Iran
and finished the Chabahar project (including the rail & road networks to Zahedan-Zaranj), without changing its policies according to the shifts in Washington, it would now have had direct access to
#Afghanistan
, bypassing
#Pakistan
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Back then, we were told to move to Telegram from WhatsApp to escape snooping. The irony is that even Telegram founder Pavel Durov's phone number is on the list for
#Pegasus
spying.
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India could be the only constitutional secular democracy where a state governor would send a letter to a chief minister mockingly asking if he suddenly turned secular.
#UddhavThackeray
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As journalists, we are supposed to tell the story on both sides. We are also supposed to tell it as it is -- the Taliban are evil.
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So UNHRC adopted a draft calling for "concrete action against racism, xenophobia & related intolerance". Which all countries voted against it? US, UK, Ukraine, Poland, Netherlands, France, Germany, etc. Finland & Japan abstained. India voted for it, with others from Global South.
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Imagine if it were a Russian-made malware that was used for illegal surveillance & with a target list that includes the French President & 12 other world leaders! All hell would have broken loose. Now, Biden doesn't even utter the world
#Israel
while condemning
#PegasusGate
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If you ask me, India should abstain, maybe with a critique of the Russian attack, for 3 broad reasons. 1. In the 'rules-based order' where some aggressors are punished & some rewarded, major powers should take decisions based on self ineterest & realism, not just on 'principles'.
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The
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Biden refused to make a call to MBS when he became President. One and a half years later, he had to go to Saudi Arabia to meet him. That's the power of realism.
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All said and done, my sense is that India handled the
#Ukraine
crisis, the most disruptive global crisis of our time, relatively well. Thread.
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The only thing that's growing in life is the list of bookmarked articles. When are we going to read them all!
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The US has imposed sanctions on Bangladesh individuals. Western diplomats in Dhaka, especially the US Amb, keep making comments on Bangladesh's domestic politics. Now, American media has launched a frontal assault on Hasina. What do they actually want? A Jamaat govt in Dhaka?
TIME’s new cover: Under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, democracy in Bangladesh hangs in the balance
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First, it's not Mallapuram, it's Malappuram. Second, the incident didn't occur in Malappuram, it's in Palakkad. Third, you're a Union Minister.
Central Government has taken a very serious note of the killing of an elephant in Mallapuram,
#Kerala
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@moefcc
@PIB_India
@PIBHindi
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On this day, 80 years ago,
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India has so far fully vaccinated only 3.3% of its population--in 5 months. Delhi has fully vaccinated 10%, Gujarat 8.8%, and Kerala 8.1%. In Bihar, it's only 2.5%. Map from today's
@the_hindu
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So a practising Hindu will have the ceremonial power to appoint bishops to the Church of England. Interesting.
#RishiSunak
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This is the language of overlords, not of partners.
During conflict, there is no such thing as strategic autonomy: U.S. Ambassador
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