[Thread] It is incredible how many Indian American writers in ‘think tanks’ and institutes have not even reacted to India’s massive push for Vaccine diplomacy & how it has delivered vaccines to so many countries. I haven’t even seen many opeds in the West on this. #VaccineMaitri

Unfortunately they are so beholden to the western publications they write for and are so used to parroting a narrative which is establishment friendly that they refuse to talk about these positive stories about India and it would raise uncomfortable questions. #VaccineMaitri

For months many of these commentators were in denial about how India was doing a better job at fighting #COVID19 and also were in denial about what India was doing w.r.t vaccines. Now that their narrative hasn’t worked, they have all gone into silent mode about #VaccineMaitri

The same people ramped up discussions on the #FarmersProtest once Meena Harris and then many folks on the American left started talking. But stay mum on India’s vaccine diplomacy. Rather than giving a perspective on an Indian narrative they blindly follow the establishment.

This is not to say that they should talk about only one issue & not the other. But if they won’t talk about #VaccineMaitri because this is a great diplomatic achievement for @narendramodi & it will make some of their friends on the hill look silly, then it shows their hypocrisy.

An example of how #VaccineMaitri has been successful.. read this @myindmakers report.. Dominican Republic PM thanks India for swift response to their vaccine needs https://www.myind.net/Home/viewArticle/dominican-republic-pm-thanks-india-for-swift-response-to-their-vaccine-needs/