When half of all consumers are trapped in a low-productivity agrarian economy, exposing them further to agricultural price volatility would be criminal.
The account of the India-US trade deal being a threat to India-Russia ties relies on a historically fixed and emotional understanding of India-Soviet/Russian ties.
At a time when India-US relations were at their frostiest in decades, the youngest ever American envoy to India drove into the embassy compound in a BMW with flashing blue & red lights.
FT reports on Delhi looking at Dhaka closely, new AI rules; BBC interviews Uttarakhand gym owner; AP looks at farmers protesting India-US trade deal; The Guardian revisits Indian trains.
New Delhi is too scared of Trump to lie about stopping the purchase of Russian oil, but too embarrassed to admit it to Indian citizens, so ministers give evasive answers.
NYT looks at India-US trade deal, Economist examines who got the better end of the bargain, while Bloomberg looks at Tamil Nadu’s role in expansion of India’s shipbuilding industry.
Thiruvananthapuram MP, who backed the Centre on Op Sindoor, took a swipe at ministers Piyush Goyal & Jaishankar for evading questions on India’s purported pledge to US on Russian oil.
A poor Muslim man from Kurnool, selling khoya buns during the Medaram Jatara in Telangana, was harassed by some YouTubers and surrounded by a mob over allegations of 'food jihad'.
Indian refiners are testing Venezuelan barrels again as Russian supply sinks, but analysts say volumes will remain limited due to refinery constraints & supply capacity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.
Congress’ obsession with farmers neither made the farmers prosper nor made the country a developed one. It’s socialist policies weakened them and made them dependent on the state.
This critique suffers from epistemological insolvency, conveniently omitting that the proposed imports are strictly a deficit-mitigation mechanism, not an indiscriminate deluge. Protectionism fosters atrophy, not resilience; witness how our Luddite aversion to GMOs inverted our cotton trade surplus, while technological obsolescence has suppressed our apple yields to a fraction of Australia’s. The Congress party continues to valorize rhetoric over empiricism—a demagoguery that already scuttled vital agrarian reforms. Rather than peddling misinformation to derail a strategic pact, the author ought to articulate precisely what the opposition’s alternative roadmap would entail.