The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
A person of caliber like Mr. Shashi Tharoor is promoting Ms. Priyanka Varda who was visible only during elections at Amethi and Rae Bareli. This itself is revealing the state of Congress leadership crisis. No one is talking of the main issue. That is “who will control purse strings of Congress if a Gandhi is not President?”
1. One can understand why both MP Shashi Tharoor and Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh are making pleas for ending the uncertainties as regards election of new Congress President. 2. Important question to be asked here is this: who can save the Congress party at this juncture? Suggestion of Captain Amarinder Singh to appoint Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra as Congress President may be welcomed by some Congressmen but not by all. However, I feel that as and when new Congress Working Committee (CWC) is formed, Smt Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra, that is, not one of them should become members of the reconstituted CWC. I this decision would be better future of the Congress party and also for ensuring internal democracy in the party. 3. If someone wishes to revive Congress party and rebuild it, he/she must find out why it has been reduced to status of a regional party. Citizen-voters like me, who believe that the Congress party has a future as left of the centre political party, wish that senior Congress leaders should make viable plans to reorganize the party. 4. Obviously, the Congress party has to reassert its place in our political space. My unsolicited suggestion is that the Congress would do well if it gets done a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the organization. I believe SWOT study would be definitely useful in efforts to reorganize and rebuild the Congress party.
Henry Ford used to say about his Model T : You can have any colour, so long as it’s black. Hold all the elections you like, So long as it’s a Gandhi at the helm. Or someone totally beholdent to them. In the circumstances, it would be intellectually more honest to appoint Ms Priyanka Gandhi as the next President. For entirely different reasons, she should keep both her brother and her husband out of the decision making loop.
Why can’t Amarinder Singh be the Congress President? Seems to be more of a patriot than most present day Congis. May give a real challenge to BJP on that front.
Priyanka’s qualification is what? Her father, grand mother and great grandfather have been prime ministers? And you even call this “honest”?! With this level of “honesty” and sycophancy, Congis and sicularists obsessed against the growth of BJP.
A person of caliber like Mr. Shashi Tharoor is promoting Ms. Priyanka Varda who was visible only during elections at Amethi and Rae Bareli. This itself is revealing the state of Congress leadership crisis. No one is talking of the main issue. That is “who will control purse strings of Congress if a Gandhi is not President?”
Abhay Dixit
1. One can understand why both MP Shashi Tharoor and Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh are making pleas for ending the uncertainties as regards election of new Congress President. 2. Important question to be asked here is this: who can save the Congress party at this juncture? Suggestion of Captain Amarinder Singh to appoint Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra as Congress President may be welcomed by some Congressmen but not by all. However, I feel that as and when new Congress Working Committee (CWC) is formed, Smt Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Ms Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra, that is, not one of them should become members of the reconstituted CWC. I this decision would be better future of the Congress party and also for ensuring internal democracy in the party. 3. If someone wishes to revive Congress party and rebuild it, he/she must find out why it has been reduced to status of a regional party. Citizen-voters like me, who believe that the Congress party has a future as left of the centre political party, wish that senior Congress leaders should make viable plans to reorganize the party. 4. Obviously, the Congress party has to reassert its place in our political space. My unsolicited suggestion is that the Congress would do well if it gets done a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) analysis of the organization. I believe SWOT study would be definitely useful in efforts to reorganize and rebuild the Congress party.
Henry Ford used to say about his Model T : You can have any colour, so long as it’s black. Hold all the elections you like, So long as it’s a Gandhi at the helm. Or someone totally beholdent to them. In the circumstances, it would be intellectually more honest to appoint Ms Priyanka Gandhi as the next President. For entirely different reasons, she should keep both her brother and her husband out of the decision making loop.
Why can’t Amarinder Singh be the Congress President? Seems to be more of a patriot than most present day Congis. May give a real challenge to BJP on that front.
Priyanka’s qualification is what? Her father, grand mother and great grandfather have been prime ministers? And you even call this “honest”?! With this level of “honesty” and sycophancy, Congis and sicularists obsessed against the growth of BJP.