Joyeeta Basu

AKHILESH NEEDS TO TALK DEVELOPMENT, NOT JINNAH

November 9, 2021

It is a sad day for India when political parties start believing that invoking Mohammad Ali Jinnah will get them the vote of the minority community. What else explains Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s sudden love for Jinnah, when, at a recent rally he said that Jinnah, along with Gandhi,...

PM’S MEETING WITH POPE SENT OUT THE MESSAGE OF INCLUSIVITY

November 4, 2021

From all accounts, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with the head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis went very well. The 20-minute scheduled meeting lasted for over an hour, during which a range of issues was discussed, including the Covid-19 pandemic, alleviation of poverty and climate change. The optics too...

LEAVE BOTH BIGOTRY AND ACTIVISM OUT, PLAY CRICKET

October 28, 2021

Pakistan is playing good cricket, trouncing first India and then New Zealand at the World T20 championship. Both its victories were well deserved and could mark a resurgence of Pakistani cricket after a prolonged slump, during which international teams stopped visiting that country and team performance went from bad to...

THE PANDEMIC: US NEEDS TO CLEAN UP ITS OWN HOUSE, COUNTER CHINA

October 26, 2021

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States has admitted what was being suspected for a long time—that the US has poured money into gain-of-function research in China and that money has funded bat coronavirus research at a Wuhan laboratory. In a letter to members of the House...

STAY OUT OF KASHMIR, SUPERMAN AND WONDER WOMAN

October 21, 2021

Something bizarre has happened in the DC Universe—for the uninitiated, DC Comic Universe where fictional characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Aquaman dwell. Suddenly, out of the blue, in an animated movie by DC, Injustice, Superman and Wonder Woman are seen to be fighting the Indian military in...

SHEIKH HASINA MUST STOP ANTI HINDU VIOLENCE WITH AN IRON HAND

October 19, 2021

Bangladesh is burning. Violence is sweeping through the land, with several members of the minority Hindu community being butchered to death by Islamist radicals. Hindu homes, temples, businesses and even villages have been burnt down. News is coming of murder, rape and plunder. There is major conflagration in places like...

SURGE IN TERRORISM IN J&K SHOWS PAKISTAN’S FRUSTRATION

October 14, 2021

The surge in terrorist violence in Kashmir valley is in direct proportion to the frustration of the Pakistani military establishment over the normalisation of the situation in the union territory. Post the revocation of Article 370, the merchants of doom and gloom had made dire predictions about a conflagration in...

THERE IS NO MAKING PEACE WITH CHINA

October 12, 2021

The expected happened. The 13th round of corps commander level talks held in Moldo on the Chinese side of the LAC on Sunday, did not yield any results, with the Chinese adamant about not listening to the constructive suggestions made by the Indian side about disengagement of troops from PP15,...

RBI’S RECURRING PAYMENT REGULATIONS INCONVENIENCE THE PUBLIC

October 7, 2021

There is something inexplicable about the way babudom functions in India. If point A could be connected to point B by drawing a straight line, the intervention of an Indian babu will ensure that all the letters of the English alphabet are covered before the line reaches B from A....

LET PEACE PREVAIL IN LAKHIMPUR KHERI

October 5, 2021

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should be commended for acting with alacrity to bring the volatile situation in Lakhimpur Kheri under control, after nine people died there on Sunday night in violence that broke out during a farmers’ protest. The government has announced a judicial inquiry into the incident...

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