If anybody has any doubts about what India brings to the global stage, the brilliant speech PM @narendramodi just delivered at UNGA should serve as a blueprint of vision India has for herself and vision India has for the free world. #modiatUNGA #ModiInUSA
Most important message PM Modi delivered on the world stage is ‘Democracy has delivered and democracy can deliver’. Today India is a shining example of how democracy can deliver. #modiatUNGA #ModiInUSA
No one can accuse this India of sitting out of the arena as most commentators have accused India in the past.Just few days ago a celebrated western commentator of Indian origin said ‘India has no foreign policy’.Of course he will now have problem with ascendant India too :)
PM @narendramodi made sure he warned the global community about dangers facing the world. Extremism and terrorism continue to haunt free world and in a reference no one can miss he warned against countries that use Afghan soil to raise terror armies #ModiInUSA
In his toughest yet criticism for UN PM @narendramodi clearly said in order to make itself relevant,UN must reform itself.There was no beating around the bush on China also.From raising Q’s about origin of Covid to keeping Indo-Pacific free there were direct attacks.#ModiInUSA
Important to note who PM @narendramodi quoted in his speech today. Chanakya, Deen Dayal Upadhyay and Tagore. Languages he used: Hindi, Sanskrit, Bangla. Old civilization, new country and eternal ideas. #ModiInAmerica #ModiinUN
There are two major takeaways from today’s speech that PM Modi delivered at UNGA.1)India has finally buried the ghost of 1962. In battlefields of Himalayas India had already displayed that. Today India displayed it at the highest global diplomatic stage. #ModiinUN #ModiInAmerica
2) India declared that rise of India translates into good for mankind.When India grows, World grows, when India reforms, world reforms.Discerning commentators will understand that Modi indicated to the west that you helped China rise over India and result is in front of you
PM Modi talked about India’s rise after establishing India’s impeccable democratic credentials. The contrast with China was unmissable and the gentle slap on the wrist was visible for aiding China’s rise despite it being an autocratic regime. #ModiInAmerica #ModiInUNGA

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31 Aug
I don’t know if it is peer pressure or group think, probably both, but this criticism about #JallianwalaBagh is so unfounded and unfortunate. I have visited the massacre site. It was frankly a disgrace. Unkempt, dilapidated and not maintained at all.
It was hardly a memorial befitting innocent martyrs who were killed for simply existing. It was a disgrace that such a solemn site had turned into ruins. Of course we want to maintain the sanctity of the place, but we also want to keep it neat and clean.
One can have issues with sound and light show. I personally don’t like them but I do see how it can be useful to attract young kids. Music can be changed with constructive criticism, but as far as maintaining the massacre site and cleaning it up,there is zero reason to criticize.
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Western publications love to caricature India. The seriousness and rigor of real journalism is always missing. If @TheAtlantic wanted to do a story on Hindi film industry, I wish they had approached a serious critic and not a cheap fellow whose ‘journalism’ is kiss and tell.
The disgruntled fellow may not know but serious readers of @TheAtlantic should know, India is a huge country. What your cheap fellow calls ‘Bollywood’- a pejorative term, is essentially Hindi film industry operating out of Mumbai. But that is not the only film industry in India
There is Telugu,Tamil, Malayali, Gujarati, Punjabi and tons of other cinema in India and thriving. Thank you.Coming to Hindi Cinema, this fellow’s only qualification in writing this piece is that he dated a film director who happens to be a protégé of another famous film director
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31 May
Mamata is manufacturing controversies and artificial clashes with the Central government. Governance is her Achilles heel but she has ambitions and is unstable. These manufactured clashes help her rally her vote bank because in their mind she is ‘standing upto’ Modi.
Mamata knows she has a captive vote bank and in order to stay in power all she needs to do is keep them convinced she is ‘fighting’ against Modi. There is no need to deliver on ground if she can keep ‘clashing’ with Modi. For Mamata race to 2024 has begun.
Mamata is destroying institutions, politicizing bureaucracy, bringing about unprecedented Center-State crisis, only because she knows she will be forgiven for everything including destroying Bengal, if she pretends to be up against Delhi all the time.
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Angela Merkel’s statement that Germany/West ‘allowed’ India to become a large pharmaceutical producer is extremely unfortunate and shortsighted. India is a rising power of 1.3 billion people who are hardworking and have aspirations. Merkel should have known better. @CDUMerkel
India has stood by the world during these dark times of pandemic. India has behaved as a responsible member of the global community. Not because West deserves it, but India’s values don’t allow her to do anything else. Such arrogance by @CDUMerkel should be condemned by all.
United States has hoarded vaccines four times its real need . Greatest democracy on the earth doesn’t get tired of preaching equality to the ‘third world’ yet it won’t share vaccines or raw material. US is sitting on tons of Aztra Zeneca which will never be approved.
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The unmistakable lesson, it seems, is China treats meek leaders such as Duterte with contempt, but will strike mutually beneficial deals with the likes of Jokowi, who has consistently refused to be intimidated by Asia's superpower. -Fascinating comparison asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/How-Jo…
‘After five years of strategic servility, Duterte has little to show for his pivot to Beijing, not even the large volume of free COVID vaccines China promised to deliver by the end of 2020’- This is why I am convinced China will never ever emerge as a super power.
1) Decades of communism have robbed Chinese of all empathy and it is no longer possible for them to be large hearted. Their foreign policy is like their domestic policy - mean spirited, cruel and self centered. They don’t even treat their allies well.
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It is time to call out bluff on this nonsense that West/America is invested in India’s rise. Or to put it more palatably as DC think tankers do ‘America wants India to rise and be successful because why wouldn’t they’. Let’s analyze this in detail.
Which countries has America ‘allowed’ to rise? China?Because they love Chinese? No.Because at one point they thought it was in their interest to send all manufacturing along with pollutants to China so that little Jack and Little Jill in Montana and Nebraska can breathe clean air
Of course China was allowed in WTO. Of course China was given a free pass on ‘human rights’ as defined by the US. Of course China was a friend. Well that lasted till the dragon actually started breathing fire and then America did not know what to do.
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