THE WORLD IS WATCHING INDIA
In FEBRUARY 2021
- Farmers protesting against laws which they say will benefit only big corporations received
support from:- Global Celebrities Rihanna, Greta Thunberg, Mia Khalifa, Lilly Singh, Meena Harris, Elizabeth Wathuti, Susan Sarandon, Trevor Noah, Khaled Beydoun
- Politicians in Britain, Canada, United States and Australia
- Advertisement played during the Super Bowl in USA
- A full-page advertisement in New York Times
- A full-page advertisement in Toronto Star
- US farmer and food justice groups said they too have suffered from the ‘Get Big or Get Out’ mantra
- International media:
- Asked whether 22 year old Disha Ravi being persecuted for editing a ‘tool kit’ to support the farmers’ protest calls into question India’s title of being a “democracy”
- Argued why Modi’s crony capitalism might turn into “gangster” capitalism
- Showed how Yogi Adityanath is “even more dangerous than Modi”
- US based digital forensics firm found that evidence against Bhima Koregaon accused Rona Wilson was planted
- One year after Delhi violence, rather than investigate BJP leaders and police, authorities target protesters and discriminate against Muslims – Human Rights Watch Report
- 100 + artists, diaspora groups, PEN America’s Artists at Risk Connection and Freemuse call for the dismissal of charges by Hindu Nationalists against stand-up comic Munawar Faruqui
- Belgium and Germany refuse small arms supplies to India in view of its poor human rights record in Kashmir
- Diaspora groups counter myths about farm laws, tool kits and why Delhi violence a year ago was a pogrom not a ‘riot’
The World Is Watching India 