Joyeeta Basu

US ANGER WITH PAKISTAN IS SHOWING

September 30, 2021

In a significant move, 22 Republican Senators introduced a legislation in the US Senate on Tuesday seeking to impose sanctions on the Taliban and the foreign “entities” that have been supporting them. Titled “Afghanistan Counterterrorism, Oversight, and Accountability Act”, it was introduced by Senator Jim Risch and was co-sponsored by,...

THE PUSHBACK STARTS AGAINST CHINA

September 28, 2021

The Quad joint statement released post the meeting of the leaders of India, the United States, Japan and Australia was surprisingly focused and clear about what the four countries wanted to achieve. Surprising because until now the Quadrilateral Dialogue was at best a chatroom, an amorphous body, which was not...

INDIA SHOULD TAKE RECIPROCAL ACTION AGAINST THE BRITISH BULLY

September 23, 2021

It would have been amusing to see the United Kingdom flexing its muscles over allowing entry to fully vaccinated Indians—considered unvaccinated by the UK—but for the price Indian students and others have to pay for taking expensive Covid tests, apart from the inconvenience of quarantining for 10 days. Amusing because...

INDIA MUST SHED RETICENCE ABOUT QUAD AS A SECURITY ALLIANCE

September 21, 2021

Beijing is angry that the first in-person Quad summit among the leaders of India, United States, Japan and Australia is taking place this week in Washington, on 24 September, Friday. Beijing is unnerved at the possibility of the Quad taking a formal shape and is calling it a grouping based...

US MUST SANCTION PAKISTAN

September 16, 2021

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement that some of Pakistan’s interests were conflicting with that of the United States and that Washington would reconsider its ties with Islamabad, are of immense significance. His was the first public pronouncement of the Joe Biden administration’s Pakistan policy. President Biden’s phone call...

IT’S A CASE OF TALIBAN REDUX, WITH BETTER PR

September 9, 2021

If even a month ago anyone said that an UN-listed terrorist would take over as the head of a country’s government, or that a US-designated terrorist with a bounty of $5 million on his head would be the interior minister of that government, and that the world would debate whether...

US NEEDS TO PROBE THE FUNDING OF ANTI-HINDU CONFERENCE

September 7, 2021

Is it a coincidence that the controversial “Dismantling Global Hindutva” conference is being organised from 10 to 12 September, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks? It appears that the not-so-subtle attempt is to draw a false equivalence between Wahhabi terrorism that felled the twin towers...

INDIA SHOULD NOT RECOGNISE A TALIBAN GOVERNMENT

September 2, 2021

Opinion seems to be divided in the country about whether or not India should recognise the incoming Islamic emirate “government”—if it can be called that—in Afghanistan. It’s as if there is even a choice. The answer is an obvious “no”. That this is even being debated shows how skewed priorities...

US AND UK LOSE MORAL RIGHT TO LECTURE INDIA ON HUMAN RIGHTS

August 31, 2021

There is something bizarre about the leader of the free world, the President of the United States, coming on television and whitewashing the crimes of one of the most regressive, repressive, medieval forces the world has ever seen, the Taliban. It was incredible watching US President Joe Biden differentiating between...

DEMAND FOR CASTE CENSUS IS ALL ABOUT POLITICS

August 26, 2021

As if caste as an intrinsic part of our socio-political structure 75 years after India’s independence was not enough, now we have several political parties demanding a census based on caste. When the movement should have been away from identity politics, a renewed push is being given towards a direction...

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