: How Israel used Pegasus spyware as a diplomatic weapon – and four other weekend reads #IndiaNEWS Surveillance is powerA detailed article by the New York Times published on Friday claimed to confirm

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How Israel used Pegasus spyware as a diplomatic weapon – and four other weekend reads #IndiaNEWS
Surveillance is powerA detailed article by the New York Times published on Friday claimed to confirm what many Indians have alleged for months: that the Narendra Modi government bought Pegasus spyware that allowed it to snoop opposition politicians, journalists and others critical of their policies. But the details about India are only a small part of the publication’s year-long investigation into the NSO Group, manufacturers of the “world’s most powerful cyberweapon�. Reporters Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti show how Israel made “NSO a central component of its national-security strategy for years, using it and similar firms to advance the country’s interests around the world�.Read the article here.A Modi report cardWhen Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, he asked for a decade in which to transform India’s economic fortunes, notes TN Ninan in a sweeping evaluation in The India Forum. But as the Bharatiya Janata Party government has “mainstreamed majoritarianism�, the economy has sputtered.“You could argue on the one hand that what Modi has pulled off is what in the financial world is called a ‘bait and switch’: beguile the buyer (voter) with one kind of offer or promise (jobs, incomes, etc) but deliver something else in the end,� Ninan suggests.Read the article here.An imaginary SavarkarVikram Sampath’s two-volume biography of Hindutva icon VD Savarkar has...Read more

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