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PM Modi In DU: Students Put Under House Arrest, Hindu College’s Notice Faces Blacklash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEPYlK5TRgM Jun 30, 2023
On June 30, PM Narendra Modi visited Delhi University to address the valedictory ceremony of the centenary celebration of DU. During his visit, the Delhi Police put several student activists under house arrest, calling them “a threat” to PM’s visit. The Wire spoke to several students regarding PM Modi’s visit in the Delhi University.

No blacks when PM Modi visits Delhi University; SFI, AISA pose questions : https://www.etvbharat.com/english/state/delhi/pms-visit-to-du-greeted-with-questions-from-sfi-aisa-on-several-students-issues/na20230630121509489489994 The Prime Minister's visit to Delhi University was marred with controversy as the constituent colleges issued circulars asking the students for compulsory attendance. The circular also instructed the students to refrain from wearing lack dress.

China the Glue Driving India, US Ties; Biden Betting on Modi St https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy7lF4LEYZA    Siddharth Varadarajan spoke to India’s former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US, the deals signed, the politics and economics involved, and China's role in bringing the two nations together

Comment:  @sagniksarkar1215
But one major concern can be hard to shrug off:- US has immense strategic gain in inciting a sub nuclear military conflict between India & China thus bogging down China in its neighbourhood while it's already encircling china by QUAD, AUKUS & US allies like Japan, South Korea, Singapore.
Not only will it reduce our diplomatic manouevrability but force us further to be dependent on American aid with any russian support unlikely. In the long run being dependent on US logistical chains for such sensitive tech further enhances the risk of being strong armed to obey US interests. They have a history of leveraging key tech like shutting GPS access in Kargil war.

The exact same grand strategy has been replicated in Ukraine of the Euromaidan coup of 2014 in Ukraine that was followed by 8 yrs of planning culminating in what's clearly a russian strategic defeat & obliteration of russian sphere of influence. Merkel & others have now openly admitted to the fact that the Minsk Agreement was just cover for Ukraine being prepared for war. It's US that has obviously gained the most at the cost of Ukrainian lives.
A similar intention may not be brushed off as completely conspirational.

While it is most certainly true that this is no 62, Indian armed forces are far more capable & well equipped with military edge in the Tibetan highlands due to access to high altitude airfields. It's rational to accept that it will be asymmetric warfare for us against the Chinese.
Therefore if the door is wide open, an overtly rosy deal is being offered:- in the long run an equally prickly payback might some day be demanded.

full text: https://thewire.in/diplomacy/full-text-shivshankar-menon-india-us-modi-visit

Emergency then, Emergency now, A new population of thugs, cutting across all class barriers, infused with the saffron hue, have sprung up in the past few years. Nandana Reddy, Konarak Reddy, JUN 28 2023 https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/panorama/emergency-then-emergency-now-1232188.html

During the Assembly elections in Karnataka, Modi’s campaign included a drive past my home on New Tippasandra Road. His ‘parade’ was scheduled for Sunday morning, but we were barricaded inside our homes from Friday evening itself. Shops were ordered to close, hawkers and vendors driven away, trees chopped down, and electrical lines cut because they were hanging lower than the required clearance of 20 feet for his convoy. Young BJP workers scaled my compound wall without permission, climbed my tree, and invaded my compound. The whole street was saffron-ised. Saffron buntings, flags, posters, and placards. On Sunday morning, van loads of people were ferried in and given caps, shawls, and flower petals. Modi’s drive-past lasted less than 10 seconds. Surrounded by Black Cats carrying AK 47s at the ready, the paramilitary, several hundreds of policemen, police vans and ambulances. He stood inside his bullet-proof casing, grumpy, expressionless, waving like a marionette. For the first time in 70 years, I felt fear and considered locking my gate and front door, but resisted the temptation...