PrimeTime | Kathchatheevu: How Modi Distorted Facts to Pick Fight With Sri Lanka for Votes
Nirupama Subramanian, former correspondent of The Hindu in Sri Lanka and author of Voices from a War Zone, speaks to Siddharth Varadarajan.
Siddharth Varadarajan
Apr 05 2024
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Nirupama Subramanian, former correspondent of The Hindu in Sri Lanka and author of Voices from a War Zone, speaks to Siddharth Varadarajan about the myth and reality of the tiny island the BJP is accusing Indira Gandhi and the Congress of ‘giving away’ to Sri Lanka 50 years ago.
They discuss what exactly happened in 1974, what India gained and lost from accepting Lanka’s sovereignty over Katchatheevu in the Palk Strait and what impact Modi and foreign minister S. Jaishankar’s political grandstanding will have in Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu.
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