Why Disha Raviâs arrest should worry independent media platforms
Not just âandolanjeeviâ, any media outlet that dares simply do their job of honest newsgathering is on the governmentâs radar. See what happened to NewsClick.
18 Feb, 2021
We should not have been surprised that the Delhi police arrested a young environmental activist, Disha Ravi, on February 13 for helping put together a âtoolkitâ in support of the farmers protesting against the Narendra Modi governmentâs new agriculture laws. An early warning that something like this might happen had been given by no less an authority than the prime minister himself.
Speaking in the parliament, Modi
As farmers expand their agitation, Indian government intensifies repression
Pushed on the back foot by the popular support for the farmers’ agitation against its pro-agribusiness farm laws, India’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government is systematically intensifying state repression against protesters and their supporters.
Since late November, tens of thousands of protesting farmers, principally from the nearby states of Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, have been encamped on the outskirts of the Delhi National Capital Territory. Their Delhi
Chalo (Let’s go to Delhi) protest, which is demanding the repeal of all three recently-enacted farm laws, was prevented from entering the capital by a massive police mobilisation organised by the Modi government.
India under attack: Is Andolan Jeevi a Foreign Destructive Ideology?
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The writer Prof Shazia Cheema is an analyst writing for national and international media outlets including Pakistan Observer, Eurasia Diary, InSight, and Mina News Agency. She heads the Thought Center of Dispatch News Desk (DND). She did her MA in Cognitive Semiotics from Aarhus University Denmark and is currently registered as a Ph.D. Scholar of Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication at Charles University Prague. She can be reached at her: Twitter @ShaziaAnwerCh Email: shaziaanwer@yahoo.com
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Foreign tweets to foreign hands â Indiaâs âFDIâ moment under Modi was a long time coming
Whatever Meena Harris, Rihanna or Greta Thunberg may say, they are not coming here to fight on behalf of a weak and supine opposition. Modi knows that.
Jyoti Malhotra 9 February, 2021 1:23 pm IST Text Size:
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Prime Minister Narendra Modiâs âforeign handâ moment has been a long time coming, but it is finally here. From Modi laughing contemptuously at âprofessional protestersâ (â
andolan
jivisâ) and warning about the perils of âFDIâ or âforeign destructive ideologyâ to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh expanding its circle of intimacy with retired ambassadors and encouraging them to speak up, foreign policy is taking new and interesting turns these days.