India is an outlier for engaging with Russian economy, which has brought back talk of reviving an old Cold War relic: the rupee-rouble trade. But the rupee is in trouble in Russia.
It is not State aggrandisement that has to explain and justify itself but the claims of human liberty and individuality, libertarian commentator MA Venkata Rao wrote in 1958.
The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.
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