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Roving Periscope: As in India, professional protestors bring US varsities to a halt

April 26, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Crowds seldom mean supporters. Many do not even know why they are part of a protest—wily professional protest managers selectively exploit and coax the media and the people, to support and join a protest, any protest, even without a cause. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has aptly called them “Aandolanjeevi” (professional […]

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Democracy: At Rs. 1,400 per vote, the LS 2024 election to cost Rs. 1.35 trillion

April 26, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The festival of democracy comes with a cost and is often seen as an expensive exercise to keep an elected government in power. The ongoing Lok Sabha 2024 elections in India, spread over 45 days and seven phases between April and June to elect 543 representatives, will be the most expensive […]

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Roving Periscope: Worried, the West prepares for Trump’s return to WH!

April 25, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In the first indication ever that Donald Trump may, after all, return to the White House after the November 2024 presidential elections, the allies of the USA are now preparing to ‘meet the situation.’ Germany is waging a charm offensive inside the Republican Party. Japan is lining up its own Trump […]

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Roving Periscope: To keep fires burning, US approves $95 bn package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: War is big business and supporting, even financing, wars elsewhere keeps democracy alive and kicking in America. Nothing proves it better than what the US Congress has done just now even as pro-Palestinian and anti-Semitic protestors have brought several elite universities to a halt amid raging protests. And this is in […]

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Pakistan: Now, jailed Imran’s party denies it is “in talks” with the Army!

April 24, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Wheels within wheels. That defines Pakistan and its politics. A week, after the Sharifs floated a trial balloon that crises-ridden Pakistan should re-engage its “neighbor”—meaning India—the nearly bankrupt country is agog with speculations that the ruling regime might reopen a way to New Delhi. And that the omnipresent Pakistan Army, to […]

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Roving Periscope: In an election year, US varsities are plagued with JNU-type “students” protests!

April 23, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: In an election year, the United States, which loves to lecture the world on freedom and democracy, is testing its own medicines on college campuses over its pro-Israel policy in the Gaza War that has claimed nearly 34,000 people since the October 7, 2023, invasion of the Jewish state by Hamas […]

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Road to Perdition: Pro-China Muizzu’s party wins landslide in the Maldives

April 22, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Reminiscent of the Rajapakse clan’s election victories on an anti-India plank in Sri Lanka until 2019, which dragged their pro-China government and the island nation into a debt trap and economic disaster by 2022, the political outfit of President Mohamed Muizzu has also won a landslide win in the Maldives on […]

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Roving Periscope: Weeks after clashes, Iran’s President visits frenemy Pakistan

April 22, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Iran-Israel ‘friendly fight’ and weeks after tit-for-tat airstrikes they carried out against alleged terrorist hideouts on rival lands in January, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday arrived in Pakistan on a three-day official visit to promote cooperation between uneasy neighbors suspicious of each other. President Raisi, the first […]

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Poll funding: If voted back to power, Nirmala hints at reinstating electoral bonds

April 20, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: If voted back to power after the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the NDA government is likely to reinstate corporate funding to political parties through controversial electoral bonds. According to the media reports, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hinted at this possibility, stating to bring in a political funding framework acceptable to all […]

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Tesla’s EVs: Elon Musk postpones next week’s India visit to “later this year”

April 20, 2024 virendra pandit

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Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Tesla chief Elon Musk, who was expected to announce an investment of around USD 3 billion to manufacture his electric vehicles and start satellite broadband services in India, has postponed his next week’s visit to the South Asian country to “later this year.” “Unfortunately, very heavy Tesla obligations require that the […]

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