For Modi, navigating the fine line between being a gracious host to Trump, and appearing to support his quest for four more years back home won’t be easy.
From The New York Times to The Economist, the world is beginning to paint India with the same brush on CAA and Kashmir just eight months into Modi’s second term.
Should India assist the US in restoring its primacy in Asia or build a reformed and stable world order that would inevitably require cooperation with other great powers?
As Trump admin persists in its disrupter role in WTO, India remains stuck in its ‘old think’, framing every issue as a developed versus developing country one.
Modi government is taking a risk by concluding that India has the heft to disregard opinions of friendly countries and make enemies out of parties not in power.
It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.
His US Ambassadors are motel owners of America. It is full of non college graduates and are essentially self employed with no outside employees. Their political connections and lobbying are like my influence with the Mukesh Ambani family.. Majority of them are apolitical and mind their own business. If some one self appoint them self for them, they avoid them too. Hope Modi does not get fooled again. Madison square Rock concert was enough of a lesson.
My God! The PM of India is hosting the President of US. Whats wrong with these guys?
And the Print should not forget Burnol
His US Ambassadors are motel owners of America. It is full of non college graduates and are essentially self employed with no outside employees. Their political connections and lobbying are like my influence with the Mukesh Ambani family.. Majority of them are apolitical and mind their own business. If some one self appoint them self for them, they avoid them too. Hope Modi does not get fooled again. Madison square Rock concert was enough of a lesson.