Letters to the Editor — February 6, 2021 February 06, 2021 00:02 IST Updated: February 06, 2021 00:02 IST Updated: Share Article ‘Defaming’ India What is this “international conspiracy” that India is facing? Has the government been rattled by some messages posted by a singer and an environmental activist? Those who matter in the present government, instead of trying to arrive at a middle ground, have now gone and cut power, shut off water, shut down the Internet and even blocked passageways for the protesting farmers with barricades and impediments, the kind of which may not even exist along our international borders. This does not speak well of a federal system, where States have not even been informed or consulted as to what to do or what this “international conspiracy” is. Is the government trying to deflect attention?