While some Indians were spewing hatred, the government of Dubai got on with the job. The city coped with the crisis magnificently because of the quality of its leadership.
IEA projects sharp reversal from its earlier expectations, with global demand for oil in 2026 turning negative. Hormuz disruptions have pushed crude prices to $130 per barrel.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Look at the irony!
A self-certified champion of democracy and secularism singing paeans for a monarchy backed by Islamic theology – one which till recently exported the dangerous Wahhabi ideology across the world, and therefore, stands guilty of the Islamist terror and violence tearing the worlds apart.
And yes, he somehow manages to rope in PM Modi too and makes insinuations of his involvement with social media trolls/filth. Isn’t that the whole purpose of his ‘journalism’?
Iranian missiles and drones are explosive chickens coming home to roost, built using money routed through networks of sanctions-busting Dubai banks and shell companies—networks which have still not been shut down. The UAE and other Iran appeasement monkeys have themselves to blame.
Democrats like Sanghvi cannot be protagonist of Monarchies of middle east but they have a right to admire some good things of UAE. There is no harm for us Indians to learn good traits of UAE & reject bad ones. We love our messy democracy over the authoritarian regimes of UAE. Author is certainly not blaming all Indians but a section of it, that 12% of PEW survey, large enough percentage to bring shame. Bringing in USA is whataboutery, laughable.
I saw one social media post forwarded on one of my WhatsApp groups, referring to “Muzlim Indians who go to Middle east to do PhD in terrorism & return to India to join media like ThePrint, Scroll, The Wire as journalist! ” Our admin was so furious, he removed the forwarder from the group.
Everytime I read another sanctimonius article from “Sure Veer”…Well..
You call Indians who mocked Dubai a “disgrace.” Strong words from a man whose name appeared prominently in the tapes. “Wrote it… I’ve dressed it up”…the world remembers or can recollect if it wants to.You brushed that off with remarkable ease.
Here’s the inconvenient question you carefully avoided: Who spent years holding Dubai up as a mirror to shame India? Who implied that India was chaotic, unsafe, and ungovernable while breathlessly praising Gulf efficiency? Your tribe, Mr. Sanghvi. The same Lutyens commentariat that used every foreign city as a crowbar to pry apart Indian confidence.
When you spend years telling Indians their country is inferior, don’t be shocked when some of them feel vindication rather than grief when your preferred paradise takes a hit. That reaction — however uncivil — didn’t emerge from a vacuum. You helped create it.
The Pew Research Centre recently found that 88% of Indians view their fellow citizens favorably — among the highest globally. Americans, by contrast, increasingly view their compatriots as immoral and corrupt. By your logic of collective character judgement, what does that make America? What does it make India?
You won’t answer that. Because the answer demolishes your thesis.
Dubai is a magnificent city. It is also a city that spent decades marketing itself as invulnerable, outsourcing its security entirely to American military presence, while Indians who genuinely worked on their nation’s defence were quietly mocked by people like you as nationalistic simpletons.
Mr. Sanghvi: A man who compromised integrity.has no standing to lecture ordinary Indians about theirs. Clean the considerable mess in your own house before issuing eviction notices to others.
How do you figure it out that the tweets were not from south India or from anywhere else? Language ? Most tweets I see on twitter on any Damon issue is in English. So this author with biased mind and troublesome method should work to remove his prejudice first.
Look at the irony!
A self-certified champion of democracy and secularism singing paeans for a monarchy backed by Islamic theology – one which till recently exported the dangerous Wahhabi ideology across the world, and therefore, stands guilty of the Islamist terror and violence tearing the worlds apart.
And yes, he somehow manages to rope in PM Modi too and makes insinuations of his involvement with social media trolls/filth. Isn’t that the whole purpose of his ‘journalism’?
Iranian missiles and drones are explosive chickens coming home to roost, built using money routed through networks of sanctions-busting Dubai banks and shell companies—networks which have still not been shut down. The UAE and other Iran appeasement monkeys have themselves to blame.
Democrats like Sanghvi cannot be protagonist of Monarchies of middle east but they have a right to admire some good things of UAE. There is no harm for us Indians to learn good traits of UAE & reject bad ones. We love our messy democracy over the authoritarian regimes of UAE. Author is certainly not blaming all Indians but a section of it, that 12% of PEW survey, large enough percentage to bring shame. Bringing in USA is whataboutery, laughable.
I saw one social media post forwarded on one of my WhatsApp groups, referring to “Muzlim Indians who go to Middle east to do PhD in terrorism & return to India to join media like ThePrint, Scroll, The Wire as journalist! ” Our admin was so furious, he removed the forwarder from the group.
Everytime I read another sanctimonius article from “Sure Veer”…Well..
You call Indians who mocked Dubai a “disgrace.” Strong words from a man whose name appeared prominently in the tapes. “Wrote it… I’ve dressed it up”…the world remembers or can recollect if it wants to.You brushed that off with remarkable ease.
Here’s the inconvenient question you carefully avoided: Who spent years holding Dubai up as a mirror to shame India? Who implied that India was chaotic, unsafe, and ungovernable while breathlessly praising Gulf efficiency? Your tribe, Mr. Sanghvi. The same Lutyens commentariat that used every foreign city as a crowbar to pry apart Indian confidence.
When you spend years telling Indians their country is inferior, don’t be shocked when some of them feel vindication rather than grief when your preferred paradise takes a hit. That reaction — however uncivil — didn’t emerge from a vacuum. You helped create it.
The Pew Research Centre recently found that 88% of Indians view their fellow citizens favorably — among the highest globally. Americans, by contrast, increasingly view their compatriots as immoral and corrupt. By your logic of collective character judgement, what does that make America? What does it make India?
You won’t answer that. Because the answer demolishes your thesis.
Dubai is a magnificent city. It is also a city that spent decades marketing itself as invulnerable, outsourcing its security entirely to American military presence, while Indians who genuinely worked on their nation’s defence were quietly mocked by people like you as nationalistic simpletons.
Mr. Sanghvi: A man who compromised integrity.has no standing to lecture ordinary Indians about theirs. Clean the considerable mess in your own house before issuing eviction notices to others.
How do you figure it out that the tweets were not from south India or from anywhere else? Language ? Most tweets I see on twitter on any Damon issue is in English. So this author with biased mind and troublesome method should work to remove his prejudice first.