Joyeeta Basu

VACCINE TROUBLE: US SHOULD BE THE WORLD LEADER IT IS, NOT CEDE SPACE TO CHINA

April 27, 2021

The optics couldn’t be worse—the world’s number one superpower sitting on a trove of vaccines it does not need and refusing to release raw materials needed to manufacture vaccines for the poor of the world, even as thousands die not only in India but all across. It was compounded by...

PM IS RIGHT, LOCKDOWN IS NOT THE ANSWER TO CORONA CRISIS

April 22, 2021

Amid the current surge in Covid infections, there should be consensus on one issue—a lockdown is not the solution to the crisis. Instead, states need to follow the micro-containment strategy, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it clear in his speech on Tuesday evening. The human cost of a lockdown...

BORIS JOHNSON NOT SERIOUS ABOUT INDIA-UK TIES

April 20, 2021

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson did it again—cancelled his visit to India. The visit was scheduled for next week, but was cancelled because of the current surge in coronavirus infections in India. The first time he did it was for Republic Day, when he was invited to be the chief...

COVID CRISIS: LOCKDOWN IS NOT THE SOLUTION

April 16, 2021

Amid an unprecedented surge in Covid infections, the Maharashtra government has imposed what it insists is not a lockdown, but a Section 144. Considering the said section of the IPC prohibits the assembly of four or more people in an area, and given the measures that Maharashtra has taken, its...

COVID CRISIS: LOCKDOWN IS NOT THE SOLUTION

April 15, 2021

A VIOLENT POLL PROCESS: WHAT AILS THE STATE OF BENGAL?

April 13, 2021

A very sad case of lynching took place in West Bengal’s North Dinajpur district, where a Station House Officer from Bihar’s Kishanganj, Ashwini Kumar, was beaten to death by a village mob, which was instigated to attack him by a few criminals who had stolen a bike in Bihar and...

LOCKDOWN IS NO ANSWER TO SECOND CORONA WAVE

April 8, 2021

Now that India is in the middle of a second wave of coronavirus, with the number of daily cases rising exponentially, particularly in Maharashtra, the Centre has issued a stark warning about the next four weeks being “very, very critical”. The infection is spreading more rapidly than it did earlier,...

LAVROV’S VISIT TO PAK IS A MESSAGE TO INDIA

April 6, 2021

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to discuss bilateral ties and to review preparations for the upcoming bilateral summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin. Interestingly, Lavrov threw in a visit to Pakistan as well, along with his India visit....

INDIA MUST HELP SHEIKH HASINA COUNTER EXTREMISM IN BANGLADESH

April 1, 2021

Bangladesh witnessed reprehensible violence during and post Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to that country to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of Bangladesh and the birth centenary of its founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Islamists of various hues made the visit a pretext to unleash the worst kind of...

INDIA SHOULDN’T PARTICIPATE IN ANTI-TERROR EXERCISE ON PAK SOIL

March 25, 2021

There are times when India’s foreign policy can be baffling. Bizarre as it may sound, there are reports that India is likely to participate in an anti-terrorism exercise at Pabbi in Pakistan along with Pakistan and China later this year, under the aegis of the China-led Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)....

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