Mamata Banerjee’s disclosure of her gotra suggests she is cracking under pressure of BJP’s polarising poll campaign in Bengal. A Shandilya Brahmin as a CM or a janeudhari Dattatreya Brahmin as Congress supremo makes no difference to voters. Banerjee must give account of her government’s performance, not of her lineage.
US report notes normality in J&K. India must do more to win trust, transparency on ground
The US State Department report rightly acknowledges gradual restoration of normality in Jammu and Kashmir including lifting internet curbs and release of prominent politicians. But it notes a worrying rise in application of UAPA and PSA, detentions and crackdown on journalists. India must do more to enhance trust and transparency.
WHO and world need to move on from Covid origin probe. China will never be transparent
The outrage over WHO’s Covid origin probe report is understandable yet futile. Trying to investigate something that could implicate China, and expect transparency from Beijing, is a fool’s errand. WHO and the world need to move on, focus on ending this pandemic and preventing the next one without Chinese help.