20 yrs later, the Taliban are more confident, and the West weaker in resolve July 10, 2021, 9:52 PM IST
Well-known journalist and political commentator Swapan Dasgupta has worked for many leading Indian publications, including The Times of India. He thinks the Right is an endangered community in India s English-language media. Right & Wrong is one of the few voices of the community. LESS. MORE
Books, we have been told, shouldn’t be judged by their covers. In a similar vein, political speeches need not be assessed by the headlines they generate.
Last Friday, US President Joe Biden was a casualty of a sub-editor’s creative ingenuity. Reporting his much-awaited announcement on Afghanistan, days after US forces had evacuated the Bagram airfield on the outskirts of Kabul in the dead of night, The Times (London) carried the headline: “Afghanistan is not worth more US lives, says Biden.”
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Last Friday, US President Joe Biden was a casualty of a sub-editor’s creative ingenuity. Reporting his much-awaited announcement on Afghanistan, days after US forces had evacuated the Bagram airfield on the outskirts of Kabul in the dead of night, The Times (London) carried the headline: “Afghanistan is not worth more US lives, says Biden.”
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In this Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021 still image taken from video, smoke rises from fuel tankers at the Islam Qala border with Iran, in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan
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