Joyeeta Basu

From chaos to chaos, the Bangladesh story

February 27, 2025

The Bangladesh Army Chief seems to be unhappy and exasperated with the lawlessness in the country. In his recent comments he warned the so-called revolutionaries, who have taken charge of Bangladesh after Hasina’s removal, of how things were going out of hand, which, in turn, would be inimical to the...

PRC seeks world domination with DeepSeek

January 30, 2025

The arrival of China’s DeepSeek has taken the worldwide-web by storm. It is a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup which has been developing and releasing open-source large language models (LLMs). The apparent aim of DeepSeek is to democratize AI by allowing developers to base independent models of AI on this...

MAGA? It’s time to make India great again

January 23, 2025

The United States is witnessing some kerfuffle over the H1B visa, which is majorly availed of by the Indian IT industry to send their techies to that country. The pushback against these Indian workers is coming from Donald Trump’s MAGA base, which is accusing the Indians of stealing American jobs....

India-U.S. relations to flourish in Trump 2

January 21, 2025

By the time this write-up is published, Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States. India and Indians in general are more than hopeful that India-US relations will hit the high note during his presidency. This belief was reflected in an interesting opinion poll carried out by...

Time to read the riot act to Muhammad Yunus

December 26, 2024

If there is anything crystal clear about the situation in Bangladesh, it is that the Muhammad Yunus government is unelected and brought to power undemocratically, with military support in a coup backed by the United States. This can be said without indulging in any whataboutery about the Hasina government. Even...

Attempts are being made to hobble Trump

December 24, 2024

Never perhaps the period between the declaration of the result of the US Presidential election and the winning candidate assuming office has seen so much turmoil, as it is witnessing now. It appears that efforts are on to pry open the Pandora’s Box so that Donald Trump, once he assumes...

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