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‪India is quickly losing key allies and the international community over the #CAA - counter terrorism ops with Afghanistan & Bangladesh are affected.

Indian diplomats are fighting a rearguard action defending CAA and #Article370

My column today‬

‪https://www.asiatimes.com/2020/01/article/india-losing-friends-over-citizenship-law/‬

Muslims are being targeted in UP. Several state officials tell me that there is tremendous pressure from the top. Official police hierarchy is being sidelined to target protesters. But majority of district police chiefs are standing up to the pressure, I report

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/muslims-targeted-in-indias-most-populous-state/

The #CAA_NRC, #Kashmir & #Demonetisation have severely undermined India's global standing severely.

Never has the international community stood against India as it does now as #CAA_NRCProtests rise.

My column today

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/india-citizenship-law-diminishes-global-stature/

What's happening in UP is terrible. A complete failure of governance. Police brutality at its worst.

India's Prime Minister Modi pulled a "Trump" at a rally on Sunday. He made incorrect claims, much like his US counterpart.

And a Parliamentary written response indicates the detention centres are close to what Concentration Camps were.

My report

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/indias-modi-pulls-a-trump-on-citizenship-law/

Did the PM deliberately ignore the multiple assertions of his Home Minister on nationwide NRC?

Or did the PM publicly admonish his HM for making those repeated assertions on nationwide NRC?

Or has the PM forgotten the President's address to Parliament promising NRC?

Or did the PM forget his interview to Times Now about nationwide NRC?

Thoughts?

So what did Indians vote for in 2014 and 2019?

As students across 33 University campuses stand up in protest, as the entire North East rejects the citizenship amendment act, it is time to ask ourselves.
What did we vote for? My column
#CAA #unnaohorror

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/as-rage-spreads-time-to-ask-what-india-voted-for/

What's going on in Jamia? Can anyone explain what the cops are doing with the bus here?

‪ ‪A $126 billion -- that's what #China has spent in South & Central Asia to influence countries with poor results, a new study says. Not Surprisingly, India is a key target.

While 95% of the money it gives to other countries ends up in infrastructure projects, a bulk of that ultimately ends up in Chinese pockets.

And media in other Asian countries is a big target for China

My latest column
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#China #India #Kazakhstan

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/china-splurges-for-influence-in-asia-says-study/

India's finally staring down a dark hole.

For some, the citizenship amendment Bill finally puts Muslims in their place. They will couch it's justification in many ways to hide the essential fact -- that it is a violation of the basic tenets of the Indian constitution.

But to them, the Constitutional never mattered. What matters is a chance to other fellow citizens. What they don't realise is that they are now mere tools in a political power game.

My column

https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/12/article/india-govt-pushes-religion-based-citizenship-law/