Joyeeta Basu

FATF SHOULDN’T BRING PAK OUT OF GREY LIST

June 14, 2022

Pakistan is all set to come out of the FATF grey list, according to a report in The Sunday Guardian, the sister newspaper of The Daily Guardian Review. The report suggests that China has been quietly lobbying Pakistan’s case with the Financial Action Task Force, which has put India’s western...

GOVERNMENT WILL NOT ACT LIKE A TWITTER MOB IN NUPUR SHARMA MATTER

June 7, 2022

At the outset, it was reprehensible on BJP’s ex spokesperson Nupur Sharma’s part to comment on the way she did on Prophet Muhammad on national television. She not only hurt the religious sentiments of millions of Muslims, but also triggered a geopolitical storm in which vested interests tried to drive...

CHINA IS AS MALIGN AS EVER, ECONOMIC DISTRESS NOTWITHSTANDING

May 31, 2022

Last week, China’s State Council tabled a 33-point plan to give a boost to an obviously tottering economy which has been impacted severely by the latest round of Covid outbreak in that country. Later, in a video conference hosted by Premier Li Keqiang and attended by over 100,000 government functionaries,...

RAHUL’S IDEAS FOR INDIA ARE NOT WELL FORMED

May 24, 2022

Among the many comments that Rahul Gandhi made about India’s socio-political situation at a conclave called “Ideas for India” in England recently, a few shook up the political, media and social media space, particularly when he said that “India is not in a good place”, that it has been soaked...

TOKYO MEETING MUST ISSUE A QUAD CHARTER

May 12, 2022

The prospect of Ukraine joining Nato apparently made Vladimir Putin so nervous that he tried to stop that from happening by invading it. This is possibly the most simplistic way of looking at what is happening in Ukraine, because there are enough voices from inside Nato that suggest that the...

INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS AND INDIA: A CASE OF WRAP-UP SMEAR AT WORK

May 10, 2022

There is something terribly off about the international rankings when it comes to India, with this country performing poorly in almost all the following spheres—be it democracy, press freedom, or human/religious rights. And now even in terms of Covid deaths, apparently India has the highest death count, with 4.7 million...

LOUDSPEAKERS ARE NOT ESSENTIAL TO ANY RELIGION

May 3, 2022

Given the way everything is political in India, the ban on loudspeakers too has gone into the realm of politics, with barely relevant politicians such as Raj Thackeray latching on to it in the hope of breathing life into a career that never really took off. On Sunday, Thackeray was...

USCIRF RUNS AMOK WITH ITS FAKE NARRATIVE ON INDIA

April 28, 2022

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has done it again—put India, the world’s largest democracy, on the list of countries that are actually committing genocide of their minority population. USCIRF’s annual report on religious freedom around the world, recommends to the US government designating India as a...

INDIA SHOULD DISCUSS POK, NOT J&K WITH PAK

April 19, 2022

Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif has extended his hand of “friendship” to India, seeking “meaningful engagement”. Replying to a communication from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, congratulating him on his elevation to the post of Pakistan PM, Sharif has written, “We believe that peaceful and cooperative ties between Pakistan and...

SECRETARY BLINKEN SHOULD NOT HAVE RAISED HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS

April 14, 2022

Whenever any important engagement takes place between India and the United States, vested interests get active in their attempt to corner India on its supposed poor record of human rights, with activists of varied hues painting the world’s largest democracy as a cauldron of hatred where the minorities face imminent...

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