Tea workers want to return to their homelands, and the spark spreads across plantations in the two valleys; one of the causes behind the uprising is the reduction of workers’ wages.
“Thousands of tuk-tuks currently in circulation will be sponsored to showcase messages celebrating America's 250th birthday,” says US embassy in New Delhi.
The exchange between an Indian diplomat and two Dutch journalists exposed the limits of the Modi government’s standard international defensive posturing when subjected to unscripted journalistic scrutiny from a free press.
"India once again came to this council wearing the mask of a victim — but the world can see the face behind that mask," says Pakistan's representative.
