What Lies Behind India's Silence on Nobel Peace Prize for Navi Pillay?
The appeasement of Israel – which has denounced the South African jurist – appears to have trumped Prime Minister Narendra Modi's usual eagerness to celebrate the accomplishments of overseas Indians.
New Delhi: Four days after South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, the Narendra Modi government had yet to issue a publicly congratulatory message, despite her Indian Tamil ancestry, her family's historic... [8990 chars]
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