Marco Rubio was all praise for missionaries in his address at the Munich Security Conference. We need to tell him something about missionaries in India—they failed to take over Indians in large numbers.
Marco Rubio is competing against JD Vance to be the next Republican presidential nominee. He is trying not to lose the MAGA base, but struggling to junk his old Republican roots.
American media company Bloomberg had claimed that Doval had secretly flown to US & met with Rubio, telling him New Delhi will not be bullied & would wait out Trump’s tenure if needed.
The two leaders 'concluded their meeting by expressing their commitment to expanding bilateral & multilateral cooperation through Quad', says a readout after the bilateral meeting.
While officials from the two sides have remained in touch, at the highest levels, the ties are stalled over trade & tariffs. Jaishankar will meet a number of US officials too.
The US Secretary of State said after the G7 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting that he and EAM Jaishankar discussed the potential for the recent attack to “become something broader.”
In first comments on talks between two leaders, MEA says issues of trade & tariffs were raised by EAM Jaishankar during his meeting with American Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
US Secy of State Marco Rubio announces all visas for foreign commercial truck drivers is currently paused following the arrest of Harjinder Singh, who was involved in the accident.
Pakistani FM credits President Trump & Secretary Rubio for playing ‘pivotal role’ in defusing tensions between India & Pakistan. New Delhi has rejected such narratives.
Why should the US care? Because in the end, as its wrangle with Britain this week should have reminded them, America still needs bases, friendly ports, & overfly rights.
Multiple companies have invoked the principle of ‘force majeure’, which lets a party off the hook in case of unforeseen ‘acts of God’, to avoid penalties.
IRIS Lavan was in the region for the International Fleet Review held last month and ‘sought urgent docking in Kochi citing technical issues,’ it is learnt.
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.
What if Bharat simply amended its Constitution to prohibit organised religious conversion? Not a debate about democracy or dictatorship — but a straightforward assertion of a civilisation’s right to preserve itself culturally, spiritually, and linguistically from alien, externally-driven projects.
Abrahamic religions spread historically through war, military conquest, missionary indoctrination, and ideological pressure. In doing so, they committed cultural genocide across entire regions that were living perfectly coherent lives on their own terms. That is historical record, not prejudice.
Hindus have no equivalent history of conversion ‘in the western sense’. Ramakrishna Mission and Arya Samaj are not conversion machines — they are reform and consolidation movements, and their very existence is a deterrent to predatory proselytization, not a mirror of it.
Had this been addressed cleanly at the founding in 1947, much of the reactive identity politics we see today may never have taken root. The illiberal responses we now witness are downstream consequences of a wound that was never treated.
Many countries restrict proselytization without being considered uncivilised. Bharat has every right — and arguably the responsibility — to do the same. The real question to Bharat’s citizens is: how long will you wait?
To be fair to history, Muslim, then Mughal, rule did not make India an Islamic country. Nor will the slightly higher rates of reproduction for Muslims, as compared to Hindus, in India in future.
What if Bharat simply amended its Constitution to prohibit organised religious conversion? Not a debate about democracy or dictatorship — but a straightforward assertion of a civilisation’s right to preserve itself culturally, spiritually, and linguistically from alien, externally-driven projects.
Abrahamic religions spread historically through war, military conquest, missionary indoctrination, and ideological pressure. In doing so, they committed cultural genocide across entire regions that were living perfectly coherent lives on their own terms. That is historical record, not prejudice.
Hindus have no equivalent history of conversion ‘in the western sense’. Ramakrishna Mission and Arya Samaj are not conversion machines — they are reform and consolidation movements, and their very existence is a deterrent to predatory proselytization, not a mirror of it.
Had this been addressed cleanly at the founding in 1947, much of the reactive identity politics we see today may never have taken root. The illiberal responses we now witness are downstream consequences of a wound that was never treated.
Many countries restrict proselytization without being considered uncivilised. Bharat has every right — and arguably the responsibility — to do the same. The real question to Bharat’s citizens is: how long will you wait?
Wait for the next census. You might get a shock.
To be fair to history, Muslim, then Mughal, rule did not make India an Islamic country. Nor will the slightly higher rates of reproduction for Muslims, as compared to Hindus, in India in future.