Joyeeta Basu

CHINESE INFLUENCE-PEDDLING DERAILED QUESTIONS ABOUT COVID

June 8, 2021

As increasing evidence emerges of how all questions about the origin of the coronavirus were deliberately derailed by a web of international scientists and at least one reputed medical journal, it is hoped that a thorough investigation will be carried out into Chinese influence-peddling worldwide and how this phenomenon has...

USE BRICS TO QUESTION CHINA ON COVID ORIGIN

June 3, 2021

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar’s read-out at the BRICS summit hosted by India made a significant statement about territorial integrity of member states being one of the key principles of the grouping. As the minister pointed out, “It is one based on international law and the UN Charter, that recognizes...

SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS WILL HAVE TO FOLLOW INDIA’S LAWS IN INDIA

May 27, 2021

Gone are the days when social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter were harmless places to socialize, discover old and new friends, to post photos and the like. Now they are “Big Tech”, with an opinion of their own, prone to muzzling contrarian views, and seemingly not accountable to...

WHEN EVEN DR FAUCI WANTS A PROBE INTO ORIGINS OF COVID-19

May 25, 2021

Is the tide turning against China, finally? Are questions being asked about the origins of Covid-19 and is pressure mounting on the US government in particular about holding China accountable for the spread of the virus that has crippled the world? Equally importantly, will pressure now mount on China to...

INDEPENDENT, DATA-DRIVEN PROBE NEEDED TO FIND ORIGIN OF COVID-19

May 20, 2021

At a time when the world is reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, and when we are bombarded every day with news about the different variants circulating globally—UK, Brazilian, South African, Indian—there is complete silence about the main strain that originated from Wuhan. The investigation conducted by the WHO—a team that...

DOWN BUT NOT OUT: INDIA CAN MAKE CHINA PAY

May 13, 2021

The doomsayers have spoken. Three weeks of India going through one of its worst health crises ever, faced with a once-in-a-century pandemic and they have started writing the end of the India story. Many see India losing its global standing, its regional standing, with its image dented and the back...

CORONA IN INDIA: WESTERN MEDIA’S BIAS IS SHOWING

May 11, 2021

There is only one way to describe the foreign media coverage of the Covid-19 crisis in India—it stinks. It stinks of bias, superiority complex, voyeurism and even racism. It also stinks of lazy journalism, ignorance, and worse, of distortion. As if callous intrusion into the last rites of Indians was...

LET THE STATES DECIDE THE RESTRICTIONS THEY WANT TO TACKLE COVID

May 6, 2021

There is a sudden clamour for a national lockdown, with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi being very vocal about it. He is following in the footsteps of Dr Anthony Fauci, who thinks that India should go for a stringent lockdown for at least two-three weeks, as else apparently the coronavirus transmission...

BJP’S MESSAGE DID NOT REACH BENGAL VOTERS

May 4, 2021

Congratulations to Mamata Banerjee for bringing back her party, Trinamool Congress, to power in West Bengal for the third term, although she herself lost her seat to her former lieutenant, Suvendu Adhikari, who is now with the Bharatiya Janata Party. But that will not stop her from being sworn in...

DON’T SPREAD PANIC, INDIA IS NOT COLLAPSING

April 29, 2021

Amid the flurry of comments on social media about the current pandemic-triggered crisis in India, one comment from a Westerner attracted the attention of this writer. The gentleman, full of sympathy for India and Indians, was commenting on a foreign media report about the pandemic and was saying that this...

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