How Trump responds to the growing Russia-China alliance and their anti-American diatribes will require some strategising among the Indian foreign policy and national security mandarins.
Bangladesh is already reeling from low coal-fired power production & inability to import enough coal, gas. Now, Adani has cut supplies over unpaid dues. However, this could hurt Adani too.
Video call between two Army heads is their first interaction after political upheaval in Bangladesh forced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to flee to India in August.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
When Hindu groups like the RSS and VHP raised concerns about Love Jihad, people dismissed them. Nobody took notice. Instead, these organizations were vilified and defamed for “oppressing” women and their right to choose their partner.
Now that the Church has taken up this issue, it has suddenly become kosher. Both the Congress and the Left are “concerned” now. Earlier they mocked and derided even the concept of Love Jihad – blithely refused to accept that it even exists.
Kerala has 18% Christians, 27% Muslims, 54% Hindus. Long an honorary member of OPEC, it must now deal with the fallout of the oil boom in the Gulf coming to an end. It needs job creation, not religious polarisation. Not that it will work. E Sreedharan – pushing ninety – must be the only Malayalee who believes his party can come to power in the state in our lifetimes. There is a national interest that transcends all else. Some Lakshman Rekhas should be respected.
Whether the Tatmadaw will listen to the rest of the world is difficult to judge. China, although it will offer diplomatic support, including in the UNSC, is not happy with the military coup. Unlike Russia, which is always willing to interpose itself in opposition to the West, Syria being a good example, it has an immense, constructive, productive economic agenda in most parts of the world. Something our diplomats have still not got the full measure of. 2. It would have been better if India had not joined the group of seven other nations, none a democracy, in attending the military parade. That may have been a price to pay for protecting interests in the north east. However, turning back people – including conscientious soldiers and policemen who refused to shoot young freedom fighters in the head – fleeing terror is not the Indian or the Gandhian way. If some are grievously injured, medical attention should be provided to them … That was done for Ajmal Kasab as well. 3. There are ties of blood and kinship between those who seek sanctuary and the adjoining states. India should tell Mlaing, – or is it Hlaing – Sorry, Boss, there is only so much we can do for you.
When Hindu groups like the RSS and VHP raised concerns about Love Jihad, people dismissed them. Nobody took notice. Instead, these organizations were vilified and defamed for “oppressing” women and their right to choose their partner.
Now that the Church has taken up this issue, it has suddenly become kosher. Both the Congress and the Left are “concerned” now. Earlier they mocked and derided even the concept of Love Jihad – blithely refused to accept that it even exists.
Kerala has 18% Christians, 27% Muslims, 54% Hindus. Long an honorary member of OPEC, it must now deal with the fallout of the oil boom in the Gulf coming to an end. It needs job creation, not religious polarisation. Not that it will work. E Sreedharan – pushing ninety – must be the only Malayalee who believes his party can come to power in the state in our lifetimes. There is a national interest that transcends all else. Some Lakshman Rekhas should be respected.
Whether the Tatmadaw will listen to the rest of the world is difficult to judge. China, although it will offer diplomatic support, including in the UNSC, is not happy with the military coup. Unlike Russia, which is always willing to interpose itself in opposition to the West, Syria being a good example, it has an immense, constructive, productive economic agenda in most parts of the world. Something our diplomats have still not got the full measure of. 2. It would have been better if India had not joined the group of seven other nations, none a democracy, in attending the military parade. That may have been a price to pay for protecting interests in the north east. However, turning back people – including conscientious soldiers and policemen who refused to shoot young freedom fighters in the head – fleeing terror is not the Indian or the Gandhian way. If some are grievously injured, medical attention should be provided to them … That was done for Ajmal Kasab as well. 3. There are ties of blood and kinship between those who seek sanctuary and the adjoining states. India should tell Mlaing, – or is it Hlaing – Sorry, Boss, there is only so much we can do for you.