This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
Pakistan not only has zero chance of catching up with India in most areas, but will inevitably see the gap rising. Its leaders will offer its people the same snake oil in different bottles.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
Production houses and big studios are already fast-tracking projects pitched by pro-Hindutva players. Choking those who choose to remain outside these charmed circles is not a big deal.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
The whole article doesn’t talk of the crimes of this chameleon. Perhaps, SG will condone the Khalistani connections of AAP too. People are not as gullible as you.
When Modi or the BJP is accused of corruption, that communist toilet paper ‘The Hindu’, N Ram, Siddharth Varadarajan and his cohorts pronounce them guilty even when courts hold them not guilty. But they won’t utter a word against Saint Kejriwal who is accused of being neck deep in corruption.
75% of the 20% vote congress gets is Muslim and Christian votes or Jehadi or anti hindu votes . Hindus have mostly deserted congress and that is the root cause of decline of congress from Indian politics as Anthony had correctly pointed out .
I agree. And I think Congress is defending Kejriwaal not only because it fears BJP but also AAP as well. How could they (Cong) not, you yourself implied that BJP is much more comfortable with Congress as opposition and considers AAP a threat.
Also, all non-BJP political parties of India still do not really believe in their existence crisis at all. Because if they had they would have been able to hold INDIA together. Even more, they could have merged all the parties into a single unified opposition Party, but they r busy in their usual affairs like in any other election. If they were really battling for their survival they would be reforming their parties, which is something they still have power to do. For instance look at the rot in Congress since Indira– Gandhi Parivaar proxy rulling, appeasement vote bank politics, lack of vision etc. If Modi somehow loses 2024, all these parties will carry on as if Modi and all his dictatorship never happened at all.
They still have learnt NOTHING. There is no real sacrifice anywhere in opposition. And so, Modi will keep on winning and bullying them. Yogi is already waiting for his turn 🙂
Does BJP has the ability to destroy the idea called Kejriwal? It doesn’t have that ability. Jailing of Kejriwal is the trigger AAP needed to catapult it into all over India. Modi’s end time has started.
Shekhat Gupta I have stopped reading the Print . Your political leanings are blatant and your articles are hollow. I just read this one today and feel very put off. will not read the Print at all
Given India’s global ambitions, some thought could be given to how the world, especially the West, our strategic and economic partner, will view these developments. It may not suffice to task the ORF to devise an index to rate Indian democracy. Foreign governments, like Germany, weigh their words with care. Expect western media to be more robust.
Difficult to say where journalistic integrity ends and devotion to a politician starts. Assuming there is a thing called journalistic integrity in the first place.
The whole article doesn’t talk of the crimes of this chameleon. Perhaps, SG will condone the Khalistani connections of AAP too. People are not as gullible as you.
When Modi or the BJP is accused of corruption, that communist toilet paper ‘The Hindu’, N Ram, Siddharth Varadarajan and his cohorts pronounce them guilty even when courts hold them not guilty. But they won’t utter a word against Saint Kejriwal who is accused of being neck deep in corruption.
If you’re gonna make blatant biased forum posts like these, just write on the medium instead.
75% of the 20% vote congress gets is Muslim and Christian votes or Jehadi or anti hindu votes . Hindus have mostly deserted congress and that is the root cause of decline of congress from Indian politics as Anthony had correctly pointed out .
I agree. And I think Congress is defending Kejriwaal not only because it fears BJP but also AAP as well. How could they (Cong) not, you yourself implied that BJP is much more comfortable with Congress as opposition and considers AAP a threat.
Also, all non-BJP political parties of India still do not really believe in their existence crisis at all. Because if they had they would have been able to hold INDIA together. Even more, they could have merged all the parties into a single unified opposition Party, but they r busy in their usual affairs like in any other election. If they were really battling for their survival they would be reforming their parties, which is something they still have power to do. For instance look at the rot in Congress since Indira– Gandhi Parivaar proxy rulling, appeasement vote bank politics, lack of vision etc. If Modi somehow loses 2024, all these parties will carry on as if Modi and all his dictatorship never happened at all.
They still have learnt NOTHING. There is no real sacrifice anywhere in opposition. And so, Modi will keep on winning and bullying them. Yogi is already waiting for his turn 🙂
Does BJP has the ability to destroy the idea called Kejriwal? It doesn’t have that ability. Jailing of Kejriwal is the trigger AAP needed to catapult it into all over India. Modi’s end time has started.
Shekhat Gupta I have stopped reading the Print . Your political leanings are blatant and your articles are hollow. I just read this one today and feel very put off. will not read the Print at all
Given India’s global ambitions, some thought could be given to how the world, especially the West, our strategic and economic partner, will view these developments. It may not suffice to task the ORF to devise an index to rate Indian democracy. Foreign governments, like Germany, weigh their words with care. Expect western media to be more robust.
In India, jailed and corrupt become popular. This culture started during colonial times.
Difficult to say where journalistic integrity ends and devotion to a politician starts. Assuming there is a thing called journalistic integrity in the first place.