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TopicXenophobia

Topic: Xenophobia

‘India & Japan are xenophobic, reason why they are stalling economically,’ says US President Biden

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Biden lumps India and Japan — its Quad partners — with its adversaries Russia & China, calling them ‘xenophobic’, and juxtaposes this with the US and its “welcoming” immigration policy.

From Xenophobia to lazy comedy — Sooryavanshi sums up issues with Bollywood’s police films

Raghav Bikhchandani -
The Rohit Shetty film starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif underpins its moral centre on the phrase — “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”.

UK’s Covid-19 boat of death and need for masks against racism in US

Taran Deol -
The best cartoons of the week, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Avoid Chinese people with a cough’ — Coronavirus fuels racism against Asians worldwide

Kairvy Grewal -
Indian Twitter users also targeted the Chinese and asked them to stop eating dogs, bats and snakes in order to contain the outbreak.

Democracy-mongers should face up to an ugly reality: It often generates chaos

Pankaj Mishra -
Democracy remains a radically destabilising force, not a magical formula that, for all its repeated failures, keeps its vendors in stable employment.

Partition unified India in 1947, nationalism of today is slowly disintegrating us

Mohamed Zeeshan -
Indian nationalism once inspired Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Sadly, nationalism today is part of the xenophobic wave sweeping the world.

WhatsApp mobs: It’s time to accept Indians may be predisposed towards xenophobia

Arathy Puthillam -
A study of the behavioural immune system sheds light on India’s problematic attitudes towards migrants.

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Opinion

AI is officially ruining social media. It made brainrot boring

Prasanna Bachchhav -
Every other account is a bot or a person posting AI content, and social media is getting less social by the day.

Bangladesh lost on all fronts under Yunus. A herculean task awaits the new PM

Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

National Interest

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

Shekhar Gupta -
India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.

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