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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Dec 31, 2024

India's foreign policy vis-a-vis the USA is in tatters. All the hype about Modi's address to Congress, #HowdyModi, #QUAD, and #G20 were just that Hype. Now reality stares us in the face. Firstly, TeamTrump has apparently invited leaders from 60 countries to his Inauguration but not our Dear Leader. He invited China's President Xi but not India's PM Modi.
And so our EAM goes off the America. Why? He cant possibly expect to do serious business with the US Govt in the last weeks of a lame duck Biden Administration. So there has to be something in the speculation on social media that he was despatched to wangle an invite for #ModiJi to the Jan 20 inauguration.

Now, here's the thing. If he comes back empty-handed, it'll be a slap in the face for India it'll show how little USA needs India, and how little Trump needs ModiJi.

OTOH if a last minute invite does materialise, it will a) look like a poor consolation prize, and b) reveal the fact that India needs America more than the other way round; and show how desperately our Dear Leader needs the validation of a Washington Photo-Op.

What a shambles!

Addendum.
Where did I get that figure of 60 countries? Someone asked.
Answer: I took it from a Twitter source of uncertain veracity and one that I cannot find again. And I did not seek independent verification because the exact number was not relevant to the argument I was putting forward. Since I could not verify the figure I said 'apparently'.

What we do know is that Team Trump used various vack channel means to reach out to several world leaders. See: google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…

That said, it is an absolutely arguable point - what possible official or diplomatic business could possibly have drawn our EAM to Washington at this time?
1. Between Christmas and the Ney Year work usually shuts down. No one has the time, the mood or the bandwidth for serious business. Hibernation and Partying, that's all that happens.
2. Between the US elections on Nov 20 and Inauguration Day on Jan 20 2025. the US Govt effectively is in 'keep routine stuff going' mode. The outgoing administration shuts down work on new decisions, policy discussions, planning and actions. All the senior and mid-level officials are busy finding alternative employment because the incoming administration will appoint their own people. So no one is in the mood for serious discussions of any kind.
3. For both these obvious reasons, one has to ask what purpose could @DrSJaishankar's visit have possibly served? As the Indian Ambassador to the US during Manmohan Singh's time as PM, he would very well know that a visit by the country's External Affairs at this time would only cause a headache and embarrassment for the Embassy.
4. Clearly, his own inclination would have been not to go to America at this time. Nothing that he sought to achieve could not have been achieved through our Ambassador in DC.
5. And yet he agreed to go on what is widely being treated on social media memes as a fool's errand. Why?

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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Sep 19, 2024

An imprtant 🧵Communal harmony may have been put at risk by mischievous elements in India
There's a rumour circulating on @X which claims that beef and pig fat may have been used in the making of the famous Tirupati Temple Prasad Laddus.

There is a Twitter Spaces run by @IntConfused where speakers are starting from the position that this is absolutely proven (that Tirupati Laddus contain beef fat, prok fat and fish oils) and that Hindus have been betrayed and must rise up. See this

Unsurpisingly BJP handles have gotten in on the act.
@ncbn made a statement that animal fat was used in these laddus during the reign of @ysjagan, BUT a 'recent' test report showed the presence of beef and pig fat and fish oil in the making of these Laddus

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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Sep 10, 2024

I.N.D.I. Alliance or INDIA alliance? Why is India's R/W ecosystem going insance over the @RahulGandhi clip where allegedly he was caught out when he said that the term "INDI Alliance was a BJP framing" that it was INDIA. So what's the truth?
A 🧵

1st there is a difference between an abbreviation (as in DNA = stands for de-xyribose nucelic acid) where you speak out D, N, and A; and an acronym (OPEC the word substitutes for Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries), where you make a word out of the letters.

So it sounds odd to say "DNA acid" but its fine to say, "Kuwait is an OPEC country". the fact that the C in opec 'stands' for "country" does not make it wrong to say OPEC country.

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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Aug 16, 2024

What is the dumbing down force that makes even people of some eminence put out stupid posts on social media. Posts that mislead, misinform and pander to a prejudice? Like this one from @sanjeevsanyal ? Mr Sanyal is not some cheap troll. He served as India's Prin Econ Adv 6 yrs

And is now on the PM's Econ Adv Council. He is a published author and commentator and has a huge @X. So why do I take issue with that tweet of his about Sweden's support for migrant's who want to go back elsewhere?

Read on to see why I am so disappointed at the level of public discourse on social media even from people who should know better.
1. The substance of the tweet suggests that Sweden is rethinking its policy on taking in refugees and migants, and is seeking to send them back.

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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Apr 27, 2024

Of all the claims that @palkisu made in her fanciful @OxfordUnion debate on India under Modi, the most egregious was the claim about how, in the much dreaded queue at the UK Border Agency at Heathrow she observed throngs of Indians proudly presenting their INDIAN passports.

No longer did they have to shamefully and hesitantly reveal their Indian-ness. The implication was that before Modi arrived on the scene (and forced us to defend Indian democracy), all of us did precisely that - hide our passports as we slipped in shamefaced and embarrassed.

what utter bollocks! what balderdash!
If at all any Indian traveller arriving at Heathrow is not so knackered and bushed after a 9 hour flight that he presentes his Indian passport with a proud flourish its because of pride that he has obtained a Visitor Visa

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JayEnAar

@GorwayGlobal

Mar 11, 2024

This #50WordEdit from @ShekharGupta really takes the biscuit. He seems to have swallowed the usual Govt hype and self-praise about the recently concluded India-EFTA trade deal, and its description as a 100 billion USD deal. Let's delve behind the deal a bit shall we?

https://x.com/GorwayGlobal/status/1755959732018319632?s=20

I presented an analysis of this deal in this twitter thread done a few weeks ago when it was still under negotiation.

https://x.com/GorwayGlobal/status/1755959732018319632?s=20

But to reiterate a few points:
EFTA may have Europeean in its name - European Free Trade Association - but for avoidance of doubt it is not the European Union. EFTA is a customs area of 4 countries, Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein (a tiny city state of a mere 40,000 people)

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