‘Anti-national’ in the US
An NRI in the US has got into trouble for making supposedly “anti-US comments”. Swathi Devineni, who is from Telangana, was booked by the New Jersey Police for making a video in which she said the United States had failed to curb the coronavirus pandemic while India had prevented it successfully. “America is a rich country with enough mechanism. But they could not (anticipate) the coronavirus outbreak. However, India forecast it wisely and was able to prevent it,” she said in the video, which went viral on social media. It elicited a mixed response from Indians