The meeting at Haryana Bhawan in Delhi lasted nearly three hours and included top leaders of the Sangh, over 60 Muslim clerics, intellectuals, maulanas, and scholars.
Hindutva has pushed once-visible Muslim clergy behind scenes & underlined its credibility crisis. Ordinary Muslims increasingly feel they achieved little by posing faith in Ulema.
However, all from the community were united in pointing out that Uniform Civil Code will affect other religions too. Some called it ‘attempt to polarise ahead of 2024 polls’.
Enforcing discipline among 170 million people, sharply divided on sectarian and linguistic lines, is never an easy task. It requires voluntary compliance.
The oil math is skewed against the White House. The blockade has a slim chance of working. Iran can remain defiant, and China unconcerned, longer than Trump can remain solvent.
IEA projects sharp reversal from its earlier expectations, with global demand for oil in 2026 turning negative. Hormuz disruptions have pushed crude prices to $130 per barrel.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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