Believe It Or Not
One need not go to the doors of the prime minister’s most prominent critics to conclude that (Narendra) Modi’s long-delayed reassurance to India on the subject of religious freedom is driven more by...
View ArticleModi’s Visit To Israel: Political Blunder Or Calculated Gamble?
The importance of Modi’s visit to Israel cannot be underestimated. Modi will become the first sitting Indian Prime Minister to visit the country. His visit will also come after a decade of relative...
View ArticleIndia’s Modi Faces An Existential Choice
In the ultimate analysis, the Bihar election turns out to be a referendum on Modi himself. The single resounding message is that the Modi government’s lackluster performance is steadily eroding the...
View ArticleIndia And Modi: The Honeymoon Continues.
Picture courtesy: PIB Two years into his tenure, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to ride a wave of public good feeling about the way things are going in India, the state of the domestic...
View ArticleIndia After Nonalignment
Firmly ensconced in office, Modi’s associates in the BJP have no incentive to take potshots at the United States. More to the point, they are likely to rally behind Modi as he seeks to place the...
View ArticleIs The US In The Middle Of A Coup?
But if Mr Trump is prepared to go around his departments and media, ignore diplomatic protocols and sideline the US Military, will he really obey the will of Congress and the Supreme Court when they...
View ArticleAmerica’s Government Is Getting Old
The U.S. just elected the oldest new president in history, and Congress, too, has been getting consistently older, with its average age now up around 60. But the vast majority of the government...
View ArticleThe Only Responsible Choice Is A Democratic U.S. Congress
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January 2017, he has put America’s democratic system under constant assault. The country has learned that, by itself, the Constitution is not enough to...
View ArticleIndia Announces Poll Dates As Modi Fights To Retain Power
File photo India will hold elections from April 11 to May 19 to decide whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a second term as leader of the world’s largest democracy. Around 900 million voters will...
View ArticleThe Gandhi Dynasty Helped Found India. It Is Now in Demise
Amid the Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in India’s parliamentary elections, one result stood out, in the town of Amethi, near the border with Nepal. There, the family that has dominated...
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