Khurshid Imam, a devout Muslim, has broken linguistic and cultural barriers to become the only professor of Hebrew in India, and Thoufeek Zakriya is the country’s most prominent Hebrew calligrapher.
Fellow academics have variously called me a Zionist sympathiser who takes Israeli money, promotes the so-called ‘Jewish agenda,’ and whitewashes Israeli actions.
Meetings between the PMs may not make much difference to Israeli travellers to India, but for Indian Jews settled in Israel, they provide important optics.
After dominating India’s crude imports since 2023, Russian supplies slowed amid US sanctions, but a 30-day ‘waiver’ amid West Asia tensions could now push flows back towards 2 mbpd.
Trump has ushered in the age of humiliation. His method is to push around America’s friends rudely and publicly. He knows none of them can afford to fight back.
I see nothing wrong with the text of this chapter– it’s all well known historical facts about how all these communities came to India