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2 weeks ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

A few days ago, I was talking to a close acquaintance who used to live in Bawla, a small town about 35 km west of Ahmedabad. It's an industrial hub with rice processing mills, cotton ginning units, and pharmaceutical companies. The acquaintance, from a very ordinary middle-class background, lived there because his son worked in one of the major pharmaceutical units nearby. However, he recently moved to a housing society in Ahmedabad, and I asked him why.

2 weeks ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

I was a little surprised. How? I asked him. "People call Trump mad," he said, "Maybe he is. But let me tell you: Trump's tariff is in the country's national interest. Like Trump, you can also call Modi mad. But his Indus move is very much in India's national interest." I asked him whether it would be feasible for Modi to stop Indus water, or waters of other western rivers, Chenab and Jhelum—which under the treaty are also allocated to Pakistan—from crossing the borders.

2 weeks ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

I opened the link and found that not only was the percentage mentioned in the story — 25% — for the country in question, the United States, wrong (it's actually 23%), but it also significantly underplays the percentage of those leaving Hinduism in the U.S. (18%). I can't say what the reason could be, except that perhaps the portal doesn't want to be called out as anti-Hindu.

3 weeks ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

The cooperation with Elbit, an Israel-based international military technology company and defense contractor, was, according to the daily, part of the sharp rise in “warmer” diplomatic relations between the two countries following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s election to office in 2014, as part of the “Make in India” initiative, which called for more local production lines and companies.

3 weeks ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

On reaching Sydney, the boy's parents—especially the father—would tell us how a place to stay had been arranged by a "very close friend" at virtually no cost, and that the boy was "extremely happy." We would be shown photos of the boy at various spots in the city as evidence of his happiness. But as time passed, the father began to complain that his son had to "walk a lot" from where he stayed in order to catch public transport.