Harshil Mehta

PR IN A BATTLEFIELD: THE TALIBAN WAY

September 6, 2021

On 15 August 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul and became the de facto rulers of Afghanistan, barring Panjshir province. The fall of Kabul created a complete chaos, quite visible on the airport of Kabul and in the evacuation process. And, then started the chain of newsreports describing human rights violation...

PAKISTAN’S MISINFORMATION WAR AGAINST INDIA TURNS UGLIER

November 18, 2020

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it,” Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, had once said, “people will eventually come to believe it.” After 75 years of his death, Pakistan still implements the same for its misinformation war against India. With cheaper Internet, social media has landed...

Time to call out China for minority abuse

August 17, 2020

In a major development, the Trump administration has imposed sanctions on three senior Chinese officials over “human rights abuse” on the ethnic and religious minorities in China. The sanction bars them from entering the United States. The step comes after US President Donald Trump enacted “Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act”...

Doctor on oxygen support in ICU saves patient’s life

August 14, 2020

A 37-year-old anesthetist, Dr Sanket Mehta, currently in ICU undergoing Covid-19 treatment, saved the life of a fellow patient, Dinesh Purani, who urgently needed intubation for ventilator support. Dr Mehta was admitted to the BAPS Hospital, Surat, and the incident happened on the night of 9 August. Purani, who was...

Why communists don’t criticise China even now

July 6, 2020

After the violent face-off at the Line of Actual Control in eastern Ladakh on 15-16 June, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called an allparty meeting on 19 June. In the meeting, CPI general secretary D. Raja -- ironically and interestingly -- spoke about the “need to resist US efforts to drag...