Ambassador Devyani Khobragade has a deep admiration for Khmer culture and tradition. Embracing the spirit of Khmer New Year, she elegantly dressed as a Khmer Apsara, embodying the rich bond of our civilizations. Wishing all our 🇰🇭 friends a joyous Khmer New Year celebration

In the same week, Biden pledges “ironclad” support for Israel if attacked by Iran & “ironclad” support for the Philippines if attacked by China. And then there’s Ukraine. “Imperial overstretch”, anyone?

Kyasanur Forest Disease, an endemic viral haemorrhagic fever in southern-central Western Ghats, is spread by ticks, now spreading to other parts. Researchers, especially ecologists, who work in this region need to take KFD vaccine & utmost care to prevent tick bites.

Delighted to welcome my great friend Indian Foreign Secretary Kwatra back to Washington for discussions on #USIndia cooperation and the Quad. Our partnership in the Indo-Pacific is closer than ever.

This summer or anytime when you have an ORS, don’t forget to thank the team of doctors from Calcutta led by Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis. He didn’t even get the formula patented because not everything is about business. There is humanity & compassion. Read the Paperclip story of the day

Why doesn’t the U.S. military have a two war force strategy?

It’s not because we don’t want it to be able to fight simultaneous wars. It’s because resources are scarce and we decided it’s most key to get the biggest thing right, *which we’re behind on*: China in Asia. 1/

Two trees (Humayun's Tomb, Delhi)

'Candidates who employ tactics such as fear and attaching patriotism to certain concepts can persuade people to vote for candidates who are in opposition to their social beliefs'

More here on why some people vote against their own beliefs :

news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/…

2/2 Yet, voters often do not vote as rationally as one assumes. They often vote against their own interests.

sltrib.com/opinion/commen…

1/2 #India is organically pluralist.

Now eating meat is apparently some kind of issue in #India

Read this thread

And protection from endemic pollution...

But Dr. S. Jaishankar (Modi Ka Parivar) : ' #India actually came out of COVID strong... we were able to respond to it, and we were able to respond to it in an amazing way.'

Declare March 24 National #COVID Memorial Day, say kin of the dead toi.in/ReLUQb/a24gk via The Times Of India

Why should India have a National Covid Memorial...
straitstimes.com/asia/south-asi…

'It’s a simple truth that India’s 80% Hindu population doesn’t need protection from 14% Muslims and 2% Christians. What it needs to be saved from is bad education, poor public health, high unemployment and crushing poverty.'
Andy Mukherjee superb as ever bloomberg.com/opinion/featur…

What about the basic fact that an arbitral tribunal ruling under UNCLOS that is binding on the PRC and the Philippines ruled that Second Thomas Shoal is within the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone and is a low-tide elevation that can’t be sovereign territory?

“Southeast Asian nations must be willing to levy costs on China for its aggression, or it will only escalate,” @lisacurtisdc and Nilanthi Samaranayake argue in a NEW report on PRC gray zone activities in the South China Sea and Indian Ocean. Read it now: cnas.org/publications/r…

'Simpson’s great accomplishment was to be indicted for a crime and then receive the kind of treatment typically reserved for rich white guys.'

The one essay to read on OJ. By Ta-Nehisi Coates. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

Nothing honey about the Honey Badger, except the name.Considered as one of the toughest,it takes on three leopards and emerges victorious…

Size isn't the only thing that matters in a fight in the wild.

(As received in WA)