Joyeeta Basu

DON’T LET CHINA PAINT INDIA AS A POOR INVESTMENT DESTINATION

December 31, 2020

Instability is bad for business. Be it social tension, civil strife or labour trouble, a country’s investment prospects can be impacted if the perception grows that the situation is not conducive for a healthy business environment. The anti Citizenship Amendment Act protests and violence, with the attendant shrill coverage by...

DEAR MS JAYAPAL, FARM REFORM IN INDIA IS NOT A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS

December 29, 2020

Pramila Jayapal has a problem. This Representative for Washington’s 7th congressional district in the US Congress has a problem with the present dispensation in New Delhi. And she has been making it clear from several platforms, right from the time she introduced House Resolution 745 in the US Congress last...

IT’S HOPED BIDEN REALISES THE IMPORTANCE OF QUAD

December 24, 2020

The presentation of the US Legion of Merit award to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by President Donald Trump for providing leadership to elevate the strategic partnership between the two countries is a significant step forward in India-US relations, apart from an acknowledgement of India’s rising status globally. That this award...

DON’T IGNORE THE THERAPY ROUTE TO TACKLE CORONAVIRUS

December 22, 2020

Disturbing news is coming from the United Kingdom about a new strain of the coronavirus surfacing there; in fact even in South Africa. Considered to be 70% more contagious than the virus that the world has been dealing with for almost a year now, the new strain spreads much faster...

FARMERS’ PROTEST: WHEN POLITICIANS’ RHETORIC CAN BE MISINTERPRETED

December 17, 2020

Shiromani Akali Dal president, Sukhbir Badal, until recently a close ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party has suddenly discovered his erstwhile ally of 23 years to be communally divisive and polarising. Calling the BJP the real “tukde tukde gang”, he tweeted on Tuesday, “BJP…has smashed national unity to pieces, shamelessly...

BENGAL CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DESCEND INTO VIOLENCE

December 15, 2020

As the elections to next year’s West Bengal Assembly approach, the situation in the state is becoming increasingly volatile. With the 2021 elections expected to be keenly contested between the ruling Trinamool Congress and main rival Bharatiya Janata Party, it’s looking like that the state is hurtling down a perilously...

DON’T DITHER, TAKE A STAND AGAINST HUAWEI

December 10, 2020

The news that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has included Chinese telecom giant Huawei in its working groups on the rollout of the 5G network in India comes as a surprise, especially since India is paying a mammoth price daily to preserve its territorial integrity from an aggressive China, which...

THERE SHOULD NOT BE ANY BACKTRACKING ON FARM LAWS

December 8, 2020

It is hoped that some progress will be made in the Wednesday, 9 December, talks between the Central government and the farmers—primarily from Punjab—agitating on Delhi’s borders, and there will be an end to the current impasse. But sadly, right now this appears to be difficult, because the farmers are...

WILL SUPER-SPREADER CHINA GET AWAY WITH MURDER?

December 3, 2020

A report by CNN this week, based on documents leaked from Hubei province shows how Beijing was not releasing the correct picture to the world about the extent of the spread of the coronavirus in China. Apart from the fact that it was completely unable to tackle the spread, with...

PROTESTING FARMERS SHOULD SPEAK TO GOVERNMENT, STOP ISSUING ULTIMATUMS

December 1, 2020

The trend in “popular” protests nowadays seems to be street mobilisation of discontented sections of the population against the incumbent Central government, demanding the rollback of certain laws, and then the subsequent blocking of roads and highways in the national capital for months. This was seen at Shaheen Bagh in...

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