Jaishankar Sees Nothing Unusual or Offensive About US Shackling Indian Deportees; AI's Future in India is Caught Between Modi’s Rhetoric, Rahul’s Realism

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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

February 6, 2025

Siddharth Varadarajan

Amid rising opposition protests over the “inhuman” manner of deportation of 104 undocumented Indian citizens — 13 minors including young children were among the deportees — from the United States, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar today defended the shocking spectacle of deportees being cuffed and shackled. Instead of condemning the treatment, he asserted that the use of restraints was Standard Operating Procedure for all US deportations, effectively normalising the humiliation of Indian nationals on