India has called for a balanced approach on Myanmar at the United Nations Security Council meeting that took place on Tuesday even as the UK-backed draft is still being considered. New Delhi's balanced approach, which has been perceived as a very constructive one, calls for support for the democratic process in the country, given it is a neighboring country.
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In the aftermath of the bloodless coup staged by the military in Myanmar, India's Ministry of External Affairs in a statement had expressed its "deep concern", calling for upholding of the "rule of law and the democratic process".
Social media platform Twitter is the eye of a political storm in India after the federal government came down hard on it for unblocking accounts supporting the long-running protests by farmers.
Lata Mangeshkar and Rihanna. Photos courtesy of AFP/Wikimedia Commons
As anyone who has sung in a choir well knows, a key factor enhancing the power of massed voices is the dynamics: a good conductor knows when to keep the singers soft and when exactly to raise them up
fortississimo to a stirring crescendo.
By ranging playback singer Lata Mangeshkar against the global pop star Rihanna in its propaganda battle against India’s protesting farmers, the Modi government has hit a painfully dischordant note.
CNN article about the internet cuts effected in several parts of Haryana in an attempt to disrupt the swelling protests by farmers against three new agriculture laws that they believe will undermine their livelihood.
fortississimo to a stirring crescendo.
By ranging playback singer Lata Mangeshkar against the global pop star Rihanna in its propaganda battle against India’s protesting farmers, the Modi government has hit a painfully discordant note.
It all began on Tuesday night, with the Barbados-born Rihanna tweeting out a CNN article about the internet cuts effected in several parts of Haryana in an attempt to disrupt the swelling protests by farmers against three new agriculture laws that they believe will undermine their livelihood.
“Why aren’t we talking about this?!” the musician asked.
She was immediately greeted by a wall of misogynistic, racist responses on Twitter. Some spoke approvingly of the battering her former boyfriend Chris Brown had inflicted on her in 2009 and rued the fact that he wasn’t around to “keep her in line” now.