Snigdha Basu

Chasing chatter that matters via communication, and journalism. Media @citizenlab @munkschool. Ex Spl Correspondent @NDTV. Fellow @StateIVLP @NatPress

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

A story shot, scripted and edited by me on #samsunggalaxys8 @SamsungMobile
https://t.co/XS8Ze7qLN6

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

Canada 6–0 Qatar 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Jonathan David with a hat-trick as the host Canada put on a dominant play against 2022 former World Cup hosts. What a night for Canadian soccer on home soil.
#CANMNT #WorldCup2026

#FIFAWorldCup

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

The first half of the game between Canada and Qatar has been super interesting so far.
#FIFAworldcup #CanQat

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Let’s go, Canada 🇨🇦

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

A Life That Served a Purpose
In a world chasing fleeting applause, some souls choose the long, quiet road of service. Today, welfare economist Jean Drèze has been honoured with a global award for his profound research on poverty and inequality in India.

Born in Belgium, he made India his home and its people his purpose. With a scholar’s rigour and a revolutionary’s heart, he stood beside the forgotten—documenting their struggles, amplifying their voices, and shaping policies that reached millions.

His tireless advocacy helped birth two landmark legislations that still stand as lifelines: the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), which offered dignity through work to the rural poor, and the National Food Security Act, which sought to ensure no one sleeps hungry in a land of plenty.

This is not just an award. It is recognition of a life lived in radical empathy. Of choosing dusty villages over ivory towers. Of measuring success not in citations or comfort, but in the quiet lifting of human suffering.

Jean Drèze reminds us that the highest calling is to use one’s intellect, privilege, and time in the service of those who have the least.

In an age of cynicism, his journey is a living ode:
To knowledge that heals. To scholarship that serves. To a life that mattered.

Congratulations and Thank You Professor Drèze.
India is better because you walked among us.
May your example inspire a new generation to stop performing compassion and start practising it—with depth, persistence, and love.
🧡 🙏
#JeanDreze #ServiceAboveSelf #India #SocialJustice

[sunetra choudhury @sunetrac]

When systems fail, individual heroes rise. These are people who rescued people and administered CPR in the hauz rani fire . (L to R) Amir Khan, Mohd Shoaib, Wasim Raja and Mohd Afzal

[Riley Donovan @valdombre]

PM Carney tells immigrants to leave behind the feuds of their homelands:

"We don't welcome the world's hatreds"

"When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story - you leave behind your animosities"

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on the anniversary of his tragic death.
He was one of the warmest, most decent human beings to become Prime Minister of India. With him, what you saw was what you got; there was no deviousness, no subterfuge & certainly, no megalomania.
When he made mistakes he admitted it. When he felt he had been unfair to people he apologised. And despite growing up in a political family he never let the cynicism that characterises Indian politics get to him.
We often forget that he may have been the first Indian PM to have ever held a regular job, to have paid income tax and PF. This gave him an understanding of how salaried people in India lived & how the system was tilted against them. During his time taxes were lowered,the stock
market boomed and India prepared for the digital age.
He went too soon. If he had lived he would have returned to power sooner rather than later. By the time he died, he had learned from the early mistakes that his inexperience led him to make & was ideally placed to lead India into the 21 st Century and to forge a society
that had no room for divisiveness & hatred. As even his critics will concede, he was at heart a unifier, signing accords in Punjab, Assam & Mizoram, ending conflicts and building a better India.

[Department of State @StateDept]

PRESIDENT TRUMP: I settled 8 wars. In the case of India and Pakistan, you know how I got it solved?

Tariffs.

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

But it’s also a reminder of something else-spaces like RightsCon matter more because they are contested. For those of us who come from the region, this hits differently. It’s personal and it raises a difficult question-
Who decides the limits of an open conversation?

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

RightsCon2026 hosted by @accessnow has been called off. This moment says a lot, not just about Zambia, but about a broader tension across parts of Southern Africa: the push and pull between state control and civic space, between national narratives, and independent voices.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Donald J. Trump will hold a press conference from the White House Press Briefing Room.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The collision involving an Air Canada Express aircraft last night in New York that claimed the lives of the pilot and co-pilot, and injured dozens more, is deeply saddening.

Canadian officials are working closely with their U.S. counterparts on the ground as the investigation continues. My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all those impacted.

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

Canadian pilot Dominic Daoust offers a measured take on the Air Canada crash at LaGuardia, "it's too early to assign blame based on a single recording." If one person was handling both air traffic and ground at a busy airport, that's unusual. #AirCanada

[Air Canada @AirCanada]

Our deepest condolences go to the families and friends of the Jazz crew of Air Canada Express flight AC8646 on March 22.

Read full statement: https://t.co/etMYrF6W6o

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

I have just spoken with the Emir of Qatar and President Trump following the strikes that hit gas production facilities in Iran and Qatar today.

It is in our common interest to implement, without delay, a moratorium on strikes targeting civilian infrastructure, particularly energy and water supply facilities. Civilian populations and their essential needs, as well as the security of energy supplies, must be protected from military escalation.

[Haytham Kaafarani @hayfarani]

I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

BIG: Trump’s top counter terrorism official resigns: says ‘we started this war because of pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.. it serves no benefit to American people.. ‘imminent threat’ posed by Iran to America was a LIE..’ As MAGA coalition spilt wide open, there are still ‘patriots’ who tell truth to power! #ai

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

These are time when bombing schools and hospitals are becoming normalised. Those who talk of human rights show little value for human lives.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

India’s energy demand is increasing faster than anywhere else in the world. As an energy superpower, Canada is well-positioned to seize this opportunity.

[Snigdha Basu @SnigdhaBee]

Toxic rain and millions breathing polluted #Tehran air should be prime-time story. Instead, much of the focus is on oil prices and market reactions on @CBCNews
War isn’t just a geopolitical or economic event. It’s civilian suffering and the human cost should not be a footnote.