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.
Shekhar Gupta would like the readers to believe that Bhagwat’s remarks are a way of telling BJP leaders not to ignore RSS. As if BJP under Modi can do away with RSS, but RSS cannot. As per SG and DK Singh, Modi is too powerful to be dispensed with because most of the objectives of RSS were fulfilled under Modi. Does it mean that the arrogance, the vindictiveness, the misuse of investigation agencies, the buying of media, so many undemocratic actions are all tolerable? Isn’t it inhuman? Anyway, the power-struggle, the infighting started within BJP-RSS ranks will not subside. The peak of BJP and Modi are already gone.
RSS should read Dr Konrad elst book” decolonizing the Hindu mind””to know how it has killed RW intellectualism and forced to depend on half baked RW INTELLECTUALS LIKE Anand RANGANATHAN and Jai Deepak? RSS should be happy Modiji protected HINDU dharma for ten years without hurting Muslim sentiments knowing fully well nothing will please Indian Muslims than Ghaswa e hind. Modiji knows what he is doing. Let RSS run the shakasn effectively. Om shanti
Shekhar Gupta would like the readers to believe that Bhagwat’s remarks are a way of telling BJP leaders not to ignore RSS. As if BJP under Modi can do away with RSS, but RSS cannot. As per SG and DK Singh, Modi is too powerful to be dispensed with because most of the objectives of RSS were fulfilled under Modi. Does it mean that the arrogance, the vindictiveness, the misuse of investigation agencies, the buying of media, so many undemocratic actions are all tolerable? Isn’t it inhuman? Anyway, the power-struggle, the infighting started within BJP-RSS ranks will not subside. The peak of BJP and Modi are already gone.
RSS should read Dr Konrad elst book” decolonizing the Hindu mind””to know how it has killed RW intellectualism and forced to depend on half baked RW INTELLECTUALS LIKE Anand RANGANATHAN and Jai Deepak? RSS should be happy Modiji protected HINDU dharma for ten years without hurting Muslim sentiments knowing fully well nothing will please Indian Muslims than Ghaswa e hind. Modiji knows what he is doing. Let RSS run the shakasn effectively. Om shanti