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.
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?
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.
Globalisation & India's quest to be taken seriously as a world power go hand in hand. But India must conform to certain minimum standards of modern ideas of equality & governance.
The issue of inequality has assumed the blazing limelight at a time when inequality in India is said to be higher than it was in the British Raj. It's a ripe situation for half-truths and incendiary statements.
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Recall that group photograph of ten ASEAN leaders, invited for the Republic Day function, with Rashtrapati Bhavan as the backdrop. These are industrious, pragmatic folk, their prosperity deeply wound around economic engagement with China. They have little patience for the petulance Indian diplomacy has increasingly been displaying in global fora. If the next superpower feels diffident competing with Laos and Cambodia, they will get along without us.
Our country was a super power under Nehru , indiraji, our diplomatic were Not petulant like now. They used to agree to whatever Chinese said pleasantly. If we remember under Matron Soniaji we went along diplomatic Ally with Pakistan and agreed we were causing terrorism in Balochistan and Pakistan is not reason for terrorism in India . We were not at all diffident in agreeing to Pakistani view. This dispensation must go as they are spoiling the good name of our diplomacy
Bharat is already a socialist loser, so there nothing to lose if Socialist Modi doesn’t sign up for RCEP.
Recall that group photograph of ten ASEAN leaders, invited for the Republic Day function, with Rashtrapati Bhavan as the backdrop. These are industrious, pragmatic folk, their prosperity deeply wound around economic engagement with China. They have little patience for the petulance Indian diplomacy has increasingly been displaying in global fora. If the next superpower feels diffident competing with Laos and Cambodia, they will get along without us.
Our country was a super power under Nehru , indiraji, our diplomatic were Not petulant like now. They used to agree to whatever Chinese said pleasantly. If we remember under Matron Soniaji we went along diplomatic Ally with Pakistan and agreed we were causing terrorism in Balochistan and Pakistan is not reason for terrorism in India . We were not at all diffident in agreeing to Pakistani view. This dispensation must go as they are spoiling the good name of our diplomacy