India’s Increasing Recklessness

Monday, March 4, 2024

This week from The Walrus:

A Foiled Assassination Points to India’s Increasing Recklessness

Cases in the US and Canada raise troubling questions about the motives of the Modi government

BY SUSHANT SINGH

A closeup of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau facing away from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Raj Ghat, against a backdrop of yellow and orange decorations at Mahatma Gandhi's cremation site, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi in 2023.

Last November, when Manhattan prosecutors named an Indian citizen, Nikhil Gupta, in a foiled plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader in New York, they provided chilling new details on an unfolding sordid drama involving at least three countries—Canada, India, and the United States. The indictment revealed that Gupta, allegedly a drug trafficker, had been hired by an official inside the Indian government.

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A portrait of two men and four children smiling and sitting on a couch.

Growing Up Mulroney

Brian Mulroney’s love of family might be one of his most enduring legacies. In 2019, we published an interview with his sons about growing up under the spotlight of Canadian politics

BY TESSA LLOYD

A digital collage featuring a hand holding up a smartphone to photograph an Arctic. Dark blue rays and red hearts are shining out of the phone.

The North Runs on Facebook

At twenty, the social media giant might seem old school. For many of us up here, it’s still the place to be

BY EVA HOLLAND

In a 3D illustration, a scattered group of people walk toward a large glowing gate that looks like a large computer screen

Deepfakes Will Break Democracy

The fragmenting of shared reality is fuelling political extremism and dysfunction

BY KYLE HIEBERT

Me, My Selfies, and I

Those of us on the line between Gen X and millennial are watching our identities shift and age in a way no previous generation has

BY ERIKA THORKELSON

A group of Palestinian and Israeli people come together to carry a stretcher holding a wounded woman. The Palestinian and Israel flags cover her like blankets.

There’s a Path to Peace in Israel and Palestine

Territory is a fixed commodity. But compassion, freedom, and dignity should have no boundaries

BY MIRA SUCHAROV

In 1947, Canadian lawyer John Peters Humphrey worked with other members of the Commission on Human Rights to write the first draft of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

While there’s a lot to celebrate on this anniversary, it’s also an opportunity to have an honest conversation about the current state of human rights, both around the world and in Canada.

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This newsletter was produced by CIBC Digital Journalism Fellow Makda Mulatu. Email us at letters@thewalrus.ca and your letter may be included in a future issue of The Walrus.