As I See It
As I See It
As I See It
As I See It
From midnight tantrums to PowerPoint: Evolution of Indian diplomacy
After Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru saw diplomacy as performance. India, a new actor on the world stage, needed to be seen India’s diplomats have never quite faced a challenge like Donald Trump. Erratic, performative, and impervious […]
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The India-U.K. FTA spells a poor deal for public health
The entry of cheaper junk food as a result of a free trade agreement can prove to be expensive in terms of public health India and the United Kingdom have signed their Free Trade Agreement […]
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6 things you probably didn’t know were in Trump’s mega-bill
Eliminating tax on silencers. Taxing remittances. A garden of heroes. Congress could have done better. “The bill’s toplines are understandably seizing much attention. It will remake the social safety net, potentially taking away food assistance […]
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The Pottery Barn Rule: Do We Owe People Whose Countries We Break? Who Should Pay?
Anonymous The best way to disincentivize warmongering is to hold the decisionmakers directly accountable. Currently, however, decisionmakers are immune from the consequences of their decisions under the Westfall Act. “Mangu-Ward is correct in her assessment […]
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Elon Musk Goes Nuclear
The world’s richest man and the president of the United States are now openly fighting From the moment Elon Musk bounded onstage, midriff bared, to campaign for Donald Trump, cynics predicted that the two men’s […]
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Will AI ever understand quantum mechanics?
In quantum physics, observation matters. AI processes data, but it doesn’t “observe” in the same way as humans do. Artificial intelligence (AI) is doing things we once imagined only humans could do. It can do […]
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The fragmentation in the global fight against terror
Gone are the days of a united fight against, and ‘zero tolerance’ to terror; a different yardstick applies when it comes to India, which is a victim of state-sponsored terror The Pahalgam terror attack of […]
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We are witnessing slow constitutional collapse in the US
“Now, the Trump administration seems to have also usurped Congress’s power of the purse for the executive, declaring that the president may refuse to appropriate congressionally allocated funds by personal fiat. This is a profound […]
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U.S. immigration processes need to be overhauled, not flouted
Changing the rules means following yet another mundane process – drafting and passing bipartisan legislation. That is the only way to get the immigration system America needs. “As we’ve seen over the last several years, […]
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Missing: India’s comic sense
In the midst of FIRs, vandalism and outrage, there must be debate about why comedy is still a fair way away from being a vehicle for social change in the country In 2021, I watched […]
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Trump putting US soft power in jeopardy
The MAGA policy is bound to hit America’s global image and diminish its long-term influence “American soft power exerted itself not only through the dollars and cents of its foreign aid funding commitments, but through […]
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What the recent GDP data revisions reveal
Real and nominal growth rates have been revised upwards, which should shape medium-term potential growth and long-term strategy National accounts data released on February 28, 2025 by the National Statistical Office (NSO) provide two sets […]
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Astronaut Sunita Williams Returns from her Nine-Month Space Odyssey
“You don’t look at the big problem all together, because I think it’s a little intimidating. You just take it one day at a time, meet the people who are going to meet with you…, […]
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Trump-Putin-Modi summit is doable
THE GREAT GAME: Can the PM, whose foreign policy dexterity must be applauded, take a leaf out of Virat’s book? “Only the Chinese are standing up for now. You know what that means. That Trump […]
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Sajjan jailed, but 1984’s wounds remain open
Media reports continue to refer to it as the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, ignoring the reality that the state machinery had wantonly turned vigilante in seeking vengeance against an entire community for Indira Gandhi’s murder. “But, […]
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Walls, chains & cheap labor: West’s hypocrisy on migration
While right-wing politicians in destination countries reap the electoral benefits of demonizing ‘illegal’ immigrants, their economies are in dire need of a cheap and docile foreign workforce. Since the first US military aircraft carrying 104 […]