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Saturday, October 4, 2025
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Topic: globalisation

Shyam Saran calls out ‘over-interpreted’ Modi-Xi meet & S Deb on China’s global domination

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Keep sipping globalisation Kool-Aid and you won’t get Trump’s globalist vs patriot UN line

In 1986, a Stanford historian accused his peers of ‘dereliction of duty’ because they had ‘abandoned study of the nation’. It’s time to take note.

India runs risk of becoming loser on trade if it doesn’t sign RCEP deal

India’s turn to protectionism needs to be reversed if it has any hope of employing the millions of young people graduating its schools every year.

Asia must protect its wealth to survive the next financial crisis

Asia needs to accelerate development of capital markets, create world-class financial institutions and improve confidence in the security of savings.

India has gone truly global so why is its foreign policy so outdated

Most foreign policy analysis is dominated by outdated concepts from an era of famine and vulnerability, when India was dependent on aid.

Nandita Haksar’s ‘The Flavours of Nationalism’ binds politics, class & gender with food

What starts out as a personal recount becomes a sharp & honest commentary on India’s culture.

In ‘Night of Happiness’, Tabish Khair wants empathy for the liberal Muslim

After 9/11, everyone’s world has changed. Over the last forty years, life has become far more difficult for the liberal, sensitive Muslim whose interests include innocuous subjects like accounting and finance.

The missing culture of exports and fear of scale will hurt Indian economy

Boosting economic growth and export growth is as much a productivity challenge as it is going to be a political economy challenge for India. Is India’s statecraft up to it?

Global Pulse: Free speech as salvation; globalisation and plight of left-behind places

Free speech is not necessary for democracy, but "it’s our salvation from intellectual mediocrity and social ossification."

A new cold war: Money versus Military

Talk of a third world war is simplistic and hasty, but certainly you see indications that a new Cold War is on in Europe, and it is indeed being fought economically.

On Camera

6 reasons Trump’s Gaza plan won’t work—even if Hamas accepts it

On paper, the 21-point plan looks balanced—Palestinian governance, international oversight, reconstruction pledges. But in reality, it is a non-negotiable diktat.

Nodal officers to fast-tracking NOCs, Kerala govt’s heeding investor concerns, and it means business

As many as 21 policy reforms are under implementation following Invest Kerala Global Summit, as LDF govt works to change perception that the state is not conducive to businesses.

Army chief’s big warning to Pakistan: Stop sponsoring terrorism if you want to exist geographically

Amid continued concerns over cross-border terrorism, General Upendra Dwivedi further warned the neighbour that India will not show restraint if there is an Op Sindoor 2.0.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.