Joyeeta Basu

CHINA IS BOUND TO FAIL IN AFGHANISTAN

July 15, 2021

China is the latest player in the 21st-century version of the Great Game of controlling Afghanistan and its neighbourhood. As the United States, unable to defeat the Taliban for over 20 years, leaves Afghanistan to its own fate, China is stepping in, if not by sending its own military, but...

INDIA SHOULD NOT STAY SILENT ON TIBET

July 13, 2021

On 6 July 2021, Dalai Lama’s birthday, on the Chinese side of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh, the Chinese military gathered some people, presumably from the local population, to demonstrate against the occasion being celebrated by some Indian villagers on the Indian side of the LAC. According...

DARK DAYS AHEAD FOR AFGHANISTAN

July 8, 2021

According to international news reports, US forces left Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase stealthily on Friday night, without informing the new Afghan commander of the base. While leaving they shut off the electricity and left thousands of civilian vehicles, but without their keys. By the time Afghan soldiers got control of the...

XI’S BASHING-HEADS SPEECH IS RIDICULOUS RHETORIC

July 6, 2021

Is China’s President Xi Jinping about to be reduced to a caricature? His bluster at Tiananmen Square—the site of the massacre of the students who led China’s democracy movement in 1989—to mark hundred years of the Chinese Communist Party was ridiculous at best, given how almost in the same breath...

TWITTER’S LIFE IN INDIA SET TO GET DIFFICULT

July 1, 2021

The cases are coming thick and fast. Twitter, having decided not to abide by the law of the land it operates in, finds itself in the middle of several FIRs that have been lodged against it. One of Twitter’s major transgressions was uploading a headless Indian map, with Jammu, Kashmir...

JAMMU ATTACK A CURTAIN-RAISER TO WHAT PAK IS PLANNING

June 29, 2021

Sunday’s drone attack on the Indian Air Force base in Jammu, by which two bombs were dropped on the base, is a rude reminder that the terror state of Pakistan is back to its old villainy and that all overtures of peace with that country are futile. The attack has...

GOVERNANCE WILL BE THE KEY IN 2024

June 24, 2021

The havoc wreaked by the second wave of the coronavirus has kindled hopes in Opposition hearts of coming to power three years hence, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. They hope that people’s suffering and a broken economy will tip the scales against the incumbent government. Add to that the...

BEIJING IS WATCHING BIDEN-PUTIN MEETING

June 17, 2021

It’s quite telling that the communiqué issued by Nato heads of state and government at the end of the summit in Brussels on Monday, 14 June, made around 10 references to China, and around 60 references to Russia, primarily in negative terms. One paragraph in the communiqué read: “Russia’s aggressive...

FARMERS NEED TO SEE THROUGH THEIR LEADERS, END PROTEST

June 15, 2021

Seven-eight months on, some of Delhi’s borders are still blocked by groups of farmers sitting in protest against the three farm laws passed by Parliament following due legislative process and with a majority vote. Much has happened in these months, including the deadly second wave of the coronavirus that has...

WHAT NEXT, NOW THAT INDIAN STUDY FINDS HCQ EFFECTIVE?

June 10, 2021

A malaria drug widely used in India, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), has been found to be highly effective in preventing SARS-CoV2 depending on the dosage used for treatment. A study to this effect was published in Journal of The Association of Physicians of India last week. Media reports say that the prophylactic...

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