When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu linked the Hamas’ October 7 attack to the Holocaust and roared ‘Never again’, only those for whom Israel can do no wrong failed to recognise what Netanyahu had actually declared. This was that the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip had begun.
The US is punishing India and co-opting China not because of a feared nuclear war in South Asia, but because India has challenged the new international order the US has been building since the end of the Cold War.
Since Pakistan is the instigator of violence in Kashmir, for it to ask for a negotiated settlement, and to cite the threat of war to back its demand, is pure blackmail.
The Congress has been more interested in using Jain's report to attack its political enemies and climb back to power on their discomfited backs than in ensuring the lapses that contributed to Rajiv's death should never occur again.
It is when one or more of the institutions of democracy—the legislature, the executive and the judiciary—stop performing their task scrupulously, that the latent role of the President gets activated.
Double standards on terrorism must end if India and the US are to reach agreement. India will do well to keep its own policies on non-deployment fluid till a new equilibrium is reached.
With friends like Surjeet and Paswan, Congress won't need enemies. For it will have replaced a government that has the power but doesn't know what to do, with one that knows what to do, but hasn't the power to do it.
Maturity as a nation demands that we swallow the insults (of the West). India should sign the CTBT because it believes in, and stands to gain from, the maintenance of the global non-proliferation regime.
India's offer of food to Sudan or Indonesia would have shown the West it wasn't isolated, that sanctions were just water off its back. It would also have helped India consolidate Indonesia's support on nuclear issues.
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