BJP’s attack was not merely on American ‘Deep State'. The idea had been acquiring currency across ideological lines for some time. It’s been given greater legitimacy by Trump.
There are 3 perfectly timed triggers for this week's column: old, povertarian instincts are back; steel industry lobbying for more import duties; absence of reformers like AD Shroff.
Broken cricket relationships in the Subcontinent aren’t about any disputes over the game, nor Hindu-Muslim issues. It’s about the state of nations, and what goes on between them.
Charges against Adanis this time are much graver, especially as these come not from any ‘interested’ market operator but a sovereign govt. Any quick damage control is unlikely.
India just needs clear deterrence against both likely adversaries. With China, it lies in raising costs of aggression to levels it should find unaffordable. For Pakistan, it has to be punitive.
The Modi of 2024 was not riding the troika of propositions that won him two majorities and most recently brought Trump back to power. He was merely fighting to keep what was his.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
If Sikh separatists are a nuisance, it should worry their host countries. Should it bother India if they keep killing their own in gang rivalries and making their neighbourhoods unsafe?
National interest always trumps pan-Islamism. Their shared strategic threat is Iran, its Shia base. The so-called Muslim world has stopped seeing Palestine as an Islamic issue.
The US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Indian Navy chief Admiral Dinesh Tripathi said that the ongoing conflict in West Asia illustrates that speed is no longer merely an enabler of warfare but a distinct capability.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
Now what? India’s Balakot attack was less about the terrorists and more about signaling that India will cross the International boundary. They missed that lesson.
Now – after an intense slugging match, they will count scores. Punjabi bravado will be on full display. But the point that India widened the retaliation to ALL Pakistan airbases will be missed. Ceasefire unfortunately will only strengthen the warmongers in Pakistan!
Here comes the paki loving fake news peddler coupta again..no one gives a flying fuck about your jihadi buddies in pukidtan couptaji. Just flatten them out and move on
This guy speaks like RSS agent … Terrorism in kasmir is product of BJP … He hiding basic fact
You are one of the terrorist
Now what? India’s Balakot attack was less about the terrorists and more about signaling that India will cross the International boundary. They missed that lesson.
Now – after an intense slugging match, they will count scores. Punjabi bravado will be on full display. But the point that India widened the retaliation to ALL Pakistan airbases will be missed. Ceasefire unfortunately will only strengthen the warmongers in Pakistan!
Asim Munir is thinking about his country’s begging bowl.
Here comes the paki loving fake news peddler coupta again..no one gives a flying fuck about your jihadi buddies in pukidtan couptaji. Just flatten them out and move on
He has risked war for sure. Unfolding all around us now.
Is it just Munir or is it China? It’s impossible that china is not involved in this in some way.