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Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih In scathing edit ahead of SL President Wickremsinghe visit to Delhi, Sunday Times points to "double standards" by govt including demanding for devolution in SL North/East while "stripping Kashmirs autonomy", concern for SL Tamils vs brushing off of SL Tamil fisherman...

India’s goods exports dropped 22% to hit 8-month low in June - The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/business/indias-goods-exports-dropped-22-to-hit-8-month-low-in-june/article67080742.ece India's goods exports plummeted 22.02% year-over-year in June to hit an eight-month low of $32.97 billion...

Saffroning the Past: Of Myths, Histories and Right-Wing Agendas Uma Chakravarti https://www.jstor.org/stable/4406354 Abstract Towards the late 1980s the stage was set for a conflation of an ongoing social and political crisis of a high order with the surfacing of middle class insecurities...

Apparently, Dr. Manpreet Sethi, a Distinguished Fellow at Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi, sees a "Crisis in the Making" after General Khalid Kidwai's speech on Pakistan's new nuclear doctrine...

Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of modern Singapore, used to say: “India is not a real country. Instead it is thirty-two separate nations that happen to be arrayed along the British rail line" https://www.thequint.com/news/world/what-lee-kuan-yew-had-to-say-about-india

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/07/is-west-unwittingly-helping-modi.html Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently opened a new parliament building in New Delhi. Prominently displayed in this new building is a provocative map of "Akhand Bharat" (Greater India) that includes...

Once the Indian Hindu voter buys into the hateful Hindutva ideology it becomes easier for it swallow all lies and accept it as truth. ------------------- While We Watched film review — bleak glimpse into India’s changing media https://www.ft.com/content/0b4d09e3-e6f7-415e-8944-296d0e0dbe72...

Ordinary Hindu Indian voters are inspired by hatred of Muslims rather than Modi's performance. In a recent Op Ed, Mr. Shashi Tharoor summed it up in the following words: "The BJP’s belligerent Hindutva nationalism – which promotes a narrow interpretation of history and demonizes India’s...

Scientists yet to receive this year’s research funds https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/scientists-yet-to-receive-this-years-research-funds/articleshow/101710808.cms ----------- According to a ToI report, top research institutions of the country have not received any funds since April...

In the absence of real data, India's stats are all being manufactured by BJP to win elections. Postponing India’s census is terrible for the country But it may suit Narendra Modi just fine https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/01/05/postponing-indias-census-is-terrible-for-the-country...

Will India Surpass China to Become the Next Superpower? Four inconvenient truths make this scenario unlikely. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/24/india-china-biden-modi-summit-great-power-competition-economic-growth/ by Prof Graham Allison, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government when...

Remembering Lee Kuan Yew and What He Had to Say About India https://www.thequint.com/news/world/what-lee-kuan-yew-had-to-say-about-india I belong to that generation of Asian nationalists who looked up to India’s freedom struggle and its leaders Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. The...

Manish Sisodia is an AAP leader. He is a former education minister in Delhi government. https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/bjp-spreading-lies-wants-to-defame-manish-sisodia-aaps-atishi-1235073.html

Narendra Modi’s lack of education qualification dangerous for India, says Manish Sisodia https://scroll.in/latest/1047007/narendra-modis-lack-of-education-qualification-dangerous-for-india-says-manish-sisodia In an open letter, the Aam Aadmi Party leader also accused the BJP of of shutting...

Winston Churchill, the only national leader on this list, graduated from Sandhurst Military Academy. It teaches leadership skills, in addition to imparting regular college education. Don't be fooled by the media headlines. India is in crisis. Majority of Indians are suffering high levels...

Compare yourself to China. Both are the same population and both are BRIC members, making them preferred FDI/FII destinations. And yet, India's GDP is one-sixth of China's. https://www.riazhaq.com/2023/03/why-does-india-lag-so-far-behind-china.html Indian mainstream media headlines suggest...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/07/are-indias-leaders-uneducated-what-is.html Bollywood star Kajol has said at a recent event that Indian political leaders are uneducated. Though she did not name anyone, she is facing vicious attacks by Modi Bhakts, a label embraced by the staunch...

Beamline for Schools is an Education and Outreach project funded by the CERN & Society Foundation and supported by individual donors, foundations and companies. For 2019, the project is partially funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation; additional contributions have been received from...

https://www.southasiainvestor.com/2023/06/pakistani-students-team-among-three.html Top European Research Labs have announced the selection of three teams of high school students-- one each from Pakistan, the Netherlands and the United States-- to conduct accelerator beam experiments at CERN and...

India occupies 126th position among 137 nations ranked in the World Happiness Report 2023 released by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network. In South Asia, Pakistan (score 4.555) ranks 108, Sri Lanka 112, Bangladesh (4.282) 118 and India 126 (4.036). Only Taliban-ruled Afghanistan ranks...