Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Trump’s no-filter comeback, especially in Takaichi’s presence, is a wrecking ball in diplomatic pussyfootedness. Pearl Harbor is a terminal wound on American psyche, just as Hiroshima is for Japanese. Invoking it this way, Trump is ending political correctness on an industrial scale.
Dismissing the case against Ashoka’s Ali Khan Mahmudabad was right
It was right to throw out the case against Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad this week. There was no case in the first place. Haryana government only ended up embarrassing itself. Magnanimity aside, it calls for serious introspection on how this decision was taken, whose interests did this serve.