NEW DELHI TIMES R.N.I. No 53449/91 DL-SW-1/4124/20-22 (Monday/Tuesday same week) (Published Every Monday) New Delhi Page 24 Rs. 7.00 8 - 14 February 2021 Vol - 31 No. 2 Email : [email protected] Founder : Dr. Govind Narain Srivastava ISSN -2349-1221 Biden may review Bad counsel may cause us to fall into an abyss US-Taliban deal In this journey, we call life, as eternal and fleeting as it may On February 29, 2020, the US and the Taliban signed a deal in Qatar’s seem, we are faced with an ocean of difficult situations capital Doha. America agreed to withdraw all its troops and coalition and circumstances that often we cannot overcome on our forces from Afghanistan. The Taliban committed to talk to the Afghan own. We are weak or more specifically we are incomplete. government for a negotiated peaceful settlement to Afghan crisis, and Incomplete in our wisdom, incomplete in our knowledge, to severe ties with other terror outfits like the IS and Haqqani network. and incomplete in our capacity to understand and we are The Afghan dialogue between the Taliban and Afghan government left feeling alone, powerless, or insecure to muster the is continuing at Doha since September, 2020. Now Biden courage to meet life and all is trails. We feel the need to administration, new to the process... rely on our friends and family... By Dr. Ankit Srivastava Page 3 By Dr. Pramila Srivastava Page 24 By NDT Special Bureau Page 2 Myanmar under military heel Delve deeper into the mysteries of Pakistan reports interview with Ancient Aliens UN, social media says it’s fake The political landscape of Asia has changed and the Human mind is way more complex than we think. But A report appearing in Pakistan daily Dawn reported that reaction by the world’s competing powers is an indication mysteries of deep space and time continuum is ever more UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged India and of which side has scored a win... complex and beyond human comprehension... Pakistan to “come together and seriously... By Tarek Fatah Page 2 By Sujay Dhawan Page 4 By Himanshu Sharma Page 5 For critical insights One Year* Five Year* Subscribe Rs. 350 Rs. 1500 To Subscribe E-Paper Whatsapp +91 9999 331 600 * Details on Page 21 1 twitter@NewDelhiTimes facebook.com/newdelhitimes www.NewDelhiTimes.com 2 8 - 14 February 2021 Opinion NEW DELHI TIMES India & Bangladesh inching closer on cultural lines “The primary language is Bangla, called Bengali by most nonnatives, an Indo-European language spoken not just by Bangladeshis, but also by people who are culturally Bengali. This includes about 300 million people from Bangladesh, West Bengal, and Bihar, as well as Bengali speakers in other Indian states.” - Michael S. Harris of Bangladesh, Pakistan has time and again ◆ By NDT Special Bureau proved that it will try every trick in its purse @NewDelhiTimes to purge the growth of Bangla speaking Muslims. [email protected] The world has not forgotten the atrocities angla speaking Muslims of Bangladesh meted out by the Pakistan army on the B have close and metaphorical Bangla speaking Muslims in East Pakistan. relationship with India in comparison Lest we forget, in 1971, the Pakistan Army to Pakistan as they inherited a shared with the support of the militant Islamist outfit language with India and celebrated same Jamaat-e-Islami killed between 200,000 festivals, observed similar prayers and kept and 3,000,000 people and raped between forward bilateral relationship to promote 200,000 and 400,000 Bengali women. This international bond and boost economic was one of the most macabre state sponsored development. Since 1971, Bangladeshi similar sectarian practices and offerings and Bangladeshi Taka being acceptable as genocide in the 20th century. According Muslims vowed to share a healthy mutually which can seldom be found in Pakistan. a medium of exchange. Bangla speaking to the Bangladesh Genocide Archives, it cooperative relationship with India which Muslims have enriched themselves by all started with Operation Searchlight, a reciprocated the gesture in good faith. “It would be best to go back to the working and trading with Indians more than planned military pacification carried out by paradigm of history, secularism and Pakistan since the partition. Wearing lungi, the Pakistan Army started on 25 March, 1971 Since the partition, Bangla speaking fraternal ties in managing India- kurta and pajama is common in Bangladesh to curb the Bengali nationalist movement by Muslims have been sharing commendable Bangladesh relations. The participation of and Indian states like Assam, West Bengal taking control of the major cities on March bond with West Bengal and Assam due to Bangladeshi soldiers in the Republic Day and Bihar which is often traded informally 26, and then eliminating all opposition, similar practices and cultures. They have parade is a good start”. at the bordering areas. political or military, within one month. It natural bonding with Indians due to shared -Rudroneel Ghosh; TOI was India that came to help the oppressed ancestry before partition. Both Hindus and Language is one of the transformative sources Bengali Muslims of then East Pakistan. Muslims have relatives on either side of Bilaterally, India has always looked forward that burgeon natural bond and integration the border and keep visiting each other at to upgrade its ties with Bangladesh to between two persons encompassing India, standing true to its age-old friendship every opportune moment. Bangla speaking achieve a prosperous growth for both the cultural, regional, and geographical aspects. bond has always supported Bangladesh Muslims have long been influenced by countries for carrying out business and trade Pakistan, after innumerable atrocities on irrespective of international pressure. religious scholars of West Bengal and Assam without any hindrance. The atmosphere Bangladesh in the 1970s is trying hard to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who frequently visit Bangladesh to deliver is so cordial that those residing close to extend the olive branch towards Bangladesh. once said, “Bangladesh always looks their lectures and motivate them towards border on either sides keep importing and However, by fanning religious extremism towards India in the time of need”. This their religion. This is evident from the fact exporting their MSME goods, handy-craft and secretly promoting the infamous Jamaat statement speaks for the depth of shared that Bihar, West Bengal and Assam share and other valuable items with Indian Rupee members against the ruling establishment relations between the two countries. Myanmar under military heel reimpose sanctions on Myanmar as a reaction dreams of a place I never visited but felt was to the coup, calling it “a direct assault on within reach. ◆ By Tarek Fatah the country’s transition to democracy and Author & Columnist, Canada the rule of law”. He called for a concerted The romance of Rangoon was sullied by @TarekFatah international response to push the generals the bloodshed in Rakhine state from where [email protected] into relinquishing power. China’s state-run the Rohingya were chased out by Buddhist news agency Xinhua described the coup as extremists fighting Islamist jihadis, and he political landscape of Asia has merely a “a major cabinet reshuffle.” years before that in the expulsion of most T changed and the reaction by the world’s “foreigners” from the capital, some of whom competing powers is an indication of which China’s reaction reflected Beijing’s attitude who call Toronto their home. side has scored a win. towards its border states as mere satellites. Foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin And then there was Rudyard Kipling and his The military in Myanmar-formerly known as told a briefing that China hoped the parties poem that immortalized the country in his Burma-has staged a coup and imprisoned the would “properly handle their differences” “Road to Mandalay”: country’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. and “maintain political and social stability”. Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the As 2020 ended with the demise of Trump best is like the worst, and the continued rise of a worldwide Never has a military coup been given as Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments pandemic, the forgotten people of Myanmar much respectability. Of course, Beijing an’ a man can raise a thirst; after decades of military dictatorship and a has supported every military coup that has For the temple-bells are callin’, an’ it’s there genocide of the country’s Rohingya Muslims occurred in its other satellite state, Pakistan. that I would be — went to the polls and elected Aung San Myanmar may be its name today, but for By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy Suu Ky’s National League for Democracy those of us born in the Indian subcontinent at the sea; (NLD) party by a landslide. PC : Getty Images just after World War Two, the country was On the road to Mandalay, This was not what the country’s generals had known as Burma, the land where many Where the old Flotilla lay, anti-racism, my reference to Kipling or expected. They had backed her opposition of our fathers fought for both sides in the With our sick beneath the awnings when we calling Myanmar as Burma and Yangon as who were demanding a rerun of the vote, Anglo-Japanese conflict. went to Mandalay! Rangoon will be seen as me needing a jab claiming widespread fraud. The election On the road to Mandalay, of ‘wokeness’. commission disagreed, saying there was no Its capital was once known as Rangoon Where the flyin’-fishes play, evidence to support these claims. And so, on until the military generals changed it to An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer Here’s a line in Bollywood Hindi to quench Feb 1, the military staged a coup just as a Yangon.