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Atmanirbharta’s bitter pill: Second wave has shaken the carefully curated image of a country with decreasing reliance on the world May 28, 2021, 9:09 PM IST
The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
The sight of asphyxiating patients thrashing about on the floors of barely-there hospitals brought the world to India’s door. Over the last few weeks, as India has struggled to cope with the second Covid wave, foreign friends have delivered much-needed lifelines. These oxygen cylinders and oxygenators are helping us tide over the greatest irony: They’re supplying the breath of life to suffering Indians living in a country that produces so much oxygen that it exports it.
The worst violence in Jerusalem in decades has led to massive global street protests directed against Israel. Some even erupted in India. When not breast-beating on the streets, holding “down with Zion’’ placards, the humanist.
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May 2 Verdict: BJP may have not won a famous victory in Bengal but its outlook certainly has prevailed May 4, 2021, 7:17 PM IST
The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
The BJP must be silently chafing at not having delivered the people of Bengal from, in the saffron party’s own words, the ‘’tolabaaz syndicate led by the Begum of Bengal’’.
The BJP repeatedly told us Bengal was fed up with the TMC for taking ‘’cut-money” from the most indigent and was resentful that its chief Mamata Banerjee churlishly refused to dignify the slogan Jai Shri Ram.
That there was some merit in the assessment was borne out by Mamata Banerjee’s chief poll strategist Prashant Kishor. In a leaked audio conversation he was heard conceding that Hindi-speaking Hindus and a section of electorally influential tribal communities had fallen under BJP chief campaigner Prime Minister Modi’s spell.
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Rizvi has needlessly provoked, but don’t let rule of law be guillotined at the altar of religious edicts March 16, 2021, 7:57 PM IST
The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
Muslim groups are in a right royal tizz over former Shia Waqf Board Chief Waseem Rizvi’s petition in the Supreme Court. They accuse Rizvi of senselessly outraging sentiments by calling upon the apex court to remove 26 verses from the Holy Quran for allegedly promoting violence against other religions. For this act of ‘sacrilege’ furious adherents have announced that they will pay the ‘faithful’ Rs 11 lakhs to behead the ‘apostate’. This is not an empty threat.
It is Freedom House that’s only ‘partly’ fair March 8, 2021, 12:29 PM IST
The writer is Editor-in-Chief, Times Now
A lazily applied label in the first paragraph of the Freedom House report gives its motives away. Under the section ‘Status Change’ the American think tank explains why India’s democratic status has declined from Free to Partly Free under the Modi regime. It cites a ‘’multiyear’’ pattern in which the ‘’…Hindu nationalist government and its allies have presided over rising political violence and discriminatory policies affecting the Muslims population…’’. Notice the label ‘’Hindu nationalist government’’.
By deploying this appellation the authors of the Freedom House report are admitting that they began their examination from the pre-conceived stand point that the Modi government is committed to the welfare of only one community – the Hindus.