Joyeeta Basu

LLOYD AUSTIN’S VISIT UNDERLINES IMPORTANCE OF INDIA-US STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP

March 23, 2021

From all accounts, US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s India visit went off very well. As the statements issued by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Secretary Austin suggest, the Joe Biden administration is going full steam ahead in the direction that the previous Donald Trump administration had taken regarding India. As...

SPARE THE LECTURE ON INDIA’S DEMOCRACY

March 18, 2021

It is becoming increasingly apparent that some people have a major problem with India’s greatest badge of honour—its democracy. Or rather, they have such a huge problem with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that according to them India is ceasing to be a democracy just because he is in power. He...

ALL EYES ON THE KEEN CONTEST IN BENGAL

March 16, 2021

Of all the states going to the polls in the latest round of Assembly elections, West Bengal is grabbing the maximum eyeballs because of the keen contest between the incumbent Trinamool Congress and the main Opposition in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party. Given the landslide victory that Mamata Banerjee...

INDIA MUST NOT DRAG ITS FEET ON QUAD

March 11, 2021

A “peace conference” for Afghanistan is scheduled to be held in Moscow on 18 March from where India has been elbowed out by “friend for life”, Russia. This was done apparently at the insistence of Pakistan and its “iron brother” China. Russia has invited “stakeholders” such as the Taliban, Russia,...

ISSUE GUIDELINES TO STOP SOURCING OF CRITICAL EQUIPMENT FROM CHINA

March 9, 2021

If media reports are to be believed, the Chinese provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, Huawei has bagged a contract worth Rs 300 crore with one of India’s telecom giants. This has given rise to several questions, the most important being why this Chinese company...

RISE OF ABBAS SIDDIQUI WILL POLARISE BENGAL FURTHER

March 2, 2021

On Sunday, a show of strength was organised in Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground by the CPM and the Congress, along with the newly formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) of cleric Abbas Siddiqui. Reports suggest that the huge crowd was not mobilized by either CPM or Congress, but primarily by Abbas...

EXPOSE THE FORCES THAT ARE BRAINWASHING THE YOUNG

February 18, 2021

In the charges and counter charges surrounding the arrest of “climate activist” Disha Ravi, a point that is being missed is the destruction of India’s “chai and yoga image” being one of the aims of the controversial toolkit shared by Greta Thunberg. Even if Disha Ravi is given the benefit...

PRICE OF PEACE ALONG LAC WILL BE ETERNAL VIGILANCE

February 16, 2021

It is welcome that with the disengagement of Indian and Chinese troops in the Pangong Tso area along the Line of Actual Control, there has been a scaling down of tensions between India and China in that particular area. However, China cannot be trusted, and hence the vigil along the...

INDIA-US STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP IS ON TRACK

February 11, 2021

The recent flurry of communication between the Narendra Modi government and the Joe Biden administration should put to rest speculation about the new US government not being serious about India-US strategic partnership. Much was made of the fact that President Biden did not mention India in his first major foreign...

TIME TO STAY UNITED AGAINST FOREIGN INTERFERENCE

February 9, 2021

In a speech at the Rajya Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong case for the three farm laws, by saying that if status quo has kept 86% farmers poor, why not give the laws a chance and that amendments can always be made if problems arise. This is...

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