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.
BJP should not have started this personality cult of naming things after the PM. BJP has been claiming to be a party with difference. But, this is the worst emulation of Congress culture.
Peace with Pak will last until next BJP election, when a whipping boy is needed again. Unless PLA has shown its might again at doorstep to make feku & his gangs tremble.
Between India and Pakistan, it has, sadly for the sentimental Punjabi in me, always been one step forward, two steps back. So one will not rush to apply for a tourist visa, to take wife to the land from where one half of our children’s DNA has originated. 2. Three nuclear armed adversaries coming so close to war, twice, is not a sustainable situation. There is now a statesman in the Oval Office. New opportunities are opening up. On something as easy to measure as the economy, both pre and post Covid, we are not setting the slopes of Davos on fire. 3. India’s Chief Diplomat knows the world like the back of his hand. May it be his great privilege to preside over a more productive phase of our foreign policy.
When private airlines started, family switched to them. I clung on to Indian Airlines for a while, thinking buying their ticket was putting money into government coffers.
New York is the world’s greatest city. What an abiding honour for its principal gateway to be named after one its most charismatic Presidents, cut down in his prime. The Washington monument. Now also one in memory of Dr Martin Luther King, a tribute to all Black Americans, their remarkable odyssey in a land they were brought to in chains. With eleven mighty aircraft carriers – four acres of sovereign territory – each outgoing President gets his due. All in good time, in sequence.
BJP should not have started this personality cult of naming things after the PM. BJP has been claiming to be a party with difference. But, this is the worst emulation of Congress culture.
Peace with Pak will last until next BJP election, when a whipping boy is needed again. Unless PLA has shown its might again at doorstep to make feku & his gangs tremble.
Between India and Pakistan, it has, sadly for the sentimental Punjabi in me, always been one step forward, two steps back. So one will not rush to apply for a tourist visa, to take wife to the land from where one half of our children’s DNA has originated. 2. Three nuclear armed adversaries coming so close to war, twice, is not a sustainable situation. There is now a statesman in the Oval Office. New opportunities are opening up. On something as easy to measure as the economy, both pre and post Covid, we are not setting the slopes of Davos on fire. 3. India’s Chief Diplomat knows the world like the back of his hand. May it be his great privilege to preside over a more productive phase of our foreign policy.
When private airlines started, family switched to them. I clung on to Indian Airlines for a while, thinking buying their ticket was putting money into government coffers.
New York is the world’s greatest city. What an abiding honour for its principal gateway to be named after one its most charismatic Presidents, cut down in his prime. The Washington monument. Now also one in memory of Dr Martin Luther King, a tribute to all Black Americans, their remarkable odyssey in a land they were brought to in chains. With eleven mighty aircraft carriers – four acres of sovereign territory – each outgoing President gets his due. All in good time, in sequence.