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Sandeep ChachraJoseph MathaiHarshul Arora President Donald Trump’s trade tariff pronouncements, marked with unpredictability, abrupt shifts, and a confrontational and bullying tone, help us realise that we live in “interesting times”. This phrase has gained popularity in English-speaking contexts to convey…
Death and perfidy cast their dark shadow over the week in review. Terrorists gunned down 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s idyllic Pahalgam, and injured several more. In a move designed to inflame communal passions in India’s already febrile polity, the terrorists first checked if their victims were Muslims or not, before shooting them dead.
In India, consent is typically interpreted as the absence of "no" rather than the presence of "yes” (RAINN, n.d.). Publicly available songs and films cater to this type of narration primarily. Smiling, maintaining eye contact, and nodding were among the few gestures that indicated the parameter by the female. As mentioned, chatting with someone is also seen as being interesting. One-sided narration and assumption generally fueled the conversation beyond friendship, which led to sharing private information with the behind-the-screen individual.
The four-day visit of US Vice President JD Vance from April 22 to 25 carried a mix of substance, symbolism and urgency that bilateral relations between India and the US needed under a new administration in the US.
TK ARUN What matters in a country’s international commercial transactions is the current account balance, not trade surpluses or deficits with individual countries. Tempers are running high in sections of the media over the rise in India’s trade deficit with…
As the two most powerful nations— the United States and China—battle for dominance, India’s foreign policy has entered a new era of strategic calculation. My research, titled “India’s Balancing Act: Navigating US-China Rivalry,” explores how India is responding to this evolving global dynamic while protecting its core interests.
It was during the month of January when I had enrolled myself in a course that delved into the dynamic between power and a country’s foreign policy that I first came across the distant outline of my present paper (now titled: Trump 2.0 and its Implications for the China-Russia-North Korea Triangle: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Foreign Policy [2017-2025]).