The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday July 10th, 2023
Modi Lied to the US Public Once Again by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
India’s prime minister Narendra Modi spoke at the joint session of the US Congress on June 23. Modi became the second Indian Prime Minister after Manmohan Singh to be honored with a State Visit to the United States. This visit and speech came after seven years of his last visit in June of 2016 when he said, “Mr. Speaker, our nations may have been shaped by diverse histories, cultures and faiths, yet our belief in democracy for our nations and our liberty for our countrymen is common… Today, across its individuals and institutions, and in its villages and cities, in streets and states, are anchored in equal respect for all faiths.”
He lied.
This time, in his speech to the US Congress, Modi said, “Now, the US is the oldest and India the largest democracy.Our partnership augurs well for the future of democracy.Together, we shall give a better future to the world, and a better world to the future.”
Modi’s actions since getting reelected belie his claims and aspirations. The US-India partnership is bad for the future of democracy and the entire Indo-Pacific region.
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Who lies to himself #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“There,
who lies to himself,
And whoever buys lies at the most expensive price,
Although lying is more available and cheaper than flies,
And there are those who transcend into emptiness and find no one pointing at them other than their own shadow.”
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Book Review: Deep Corruption, Deep State: What, Who, How and Why By Lim Teck Ghee
For Murray’s work is not just about the massive monetary corruption associated with 1MDB and the mountain of financial scandals that have made the headlines and which the public is well acquainted with. It is about the larger and deadly cancer of debasement and degradation of the nation’s leading institutions – political, religious, economic and socio-cultural – which has eaten away at the heart, soul and other parts of the nation’s body since independence, and has gone little checked.
The existence of the deep state in the country was first brought into prominence and public attention by Foreign Affairs Minister Saifuddin Abdullah in April and June 2019 when he accused deep state actors for the Pakatan government’s failure to ratify the Rome Statute and ICERD, the convention to eliminate racial discrimination. According to him, “the deep state is real and it is out to sabotage Pakatan Harapan’s reforms and policies”.
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Screws & Chips #64 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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