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Sunil Sharan
Sunil Sharan BLOGS
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Donald Trump: Not as crazy as you think
April 11, 2025, 3:28 PM IST
President Donald Trump of the United States is often dismissed as a mere right-wing populist, but his presidency warrants a deeper, more nuanced examination. He has often been labeled as unpredictable, even irrational, by his�?/p>
April 11, 2025, 3:28 PM IST
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How protectionism, nationalism have now become the buzz words
April 4, 2025, 10:47 PM IST
It seems that everywhere one looks in the world, the extreme right is on the ascendance. Donald Trump’s ascension to the American presidency is not a culmination of winnings for extreme right nationalism. It is�?/p>
April 4, 2025, 10:47 PM IST
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How India reclaims its own
March 29, 2025, 11:31 PM IST
The Indian industrialist, SL Kirloskar, used to take out full-page ads in national dailies in the eighties stating that India would progress once profit ceased to be a dirty word in the country. Well, profit has ceased to be�?/p>
March 29, 2025, 11:31 PM IST
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Justin Trudeau meets his just desserts
March 19, 2025, 12:13 PM IST
Justin Trudeau, who resigned as Canada’s prime minister in January and was replaced by Mark Carney last week, had declared that his country was engaged in a trade war with the United States. But Trudeau�?/p>
March 19, 2025, 12:13 PM IST
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JD Vance needs to pipe down
March 4, 2025, 9:49 PM IST
US vice-president JD Vance has always made news of the wrong kind. When he was running for election as Donald Trump’s vice president, he called American women without children, “childless cat ladies,�?a remark that�?/p>
March 4, 2025, 9:49 PM IST
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Fascism arrives as a friend
February 22, 2025, 9:38 AM IST
English author Michael Rosen’s 2014 poem is pertinent to our times. It is worth quoting: “Fascism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a�?/p>
February 22, 2025, 9:38 AM IST
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Fear in America
February 10, 2025, 10:09 AM IST
A US defense aircraft carrying some 200 Indian illegal migrants in the US has arrived in Amritsar. Donald Trump is a brinkman who likes his brinkmanship. He has used it to good effect with the�?/p>
February 10, 2025, 10:09 AM IST
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Is there going to be light at the tunnel for NRIs in India?
January 27, 2025, 4:23 PM IST
NRIs stands for Non-Resident Indians. For the purposes of this article, it includes an Indian-born citizen, specifically of the US; green-card holders; work-visa holders; and student-visa holders. About 250,000 students leave India to study in�?/p>
January 27, 2025, 4:23 PM IST
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Diving deep into MAGA
January 20, 2025, 8:17 AM IST
A virtual fistfight has broken out in the US between Elon Musk on the one side and Steve Bannon (Trump’s chief strategist in his first term and a leading light now of the Make America�?/p>
January 20, 2025, 8:17 AM IST
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Modi 3.0: Time to shake things up
January 6, 2025, 6:40 PM IST
Prime Minister Modi is in his third term and his fire to rule has not dimmed one bit. The prime minister has many detractors in this giant land of ours which they believe has been�?/p>
January 6, 2025, 6:40 PM IST
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Musk’ed out
December 29, 2024, 9:58 PM IST
I bought this before Elon went crazy, read bumper stickers on many Tesla cars. Others simply say, Elon Shut Up. The world has had enough of Elon Musk. The world is Musk’ed out. Elon Musk�?/p>
December 29, 2024, 9:58 PM IST
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Trump’s deals for India
November 11, 2024, 4:56 PM IST
1. What Trump had threatened to do in his first term, he will do now. He had singled out India for tariffs then, i.e. if India did not markedly lower tariffs on American goods and�?/p>
November 11, 2024, 4:56 PM IST
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Abortion will see Kamala Harris over the top
November 1, 2024, 10:05 PM IST
Finally, it has come down to this: Kamala Harris’s abortion pitch and Donald Trump’s MAWA (Make America White Again) movement. Harris seemed to have meandered through a number of issues before she realized that abortion�?/p>
November 1, 2024, 10:05 PM IST
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The obligatory Indian wedding
October 21, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
When Nimrata (Nikki) Haley married Michael Haley, there was the obligatory Sikh wedding. When Usha Chilukuri married JD Vance, there was the obligatory Hindu wedding. Nikki Haley converted to Christianity while Usha has remained a�?/p>
October 21, 2024, 8:40 AM IST
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A new global order
October 6, 2024, 3:58 PM IST
The American presidency is often described as the most powerful office in the world. That is indisputably true. The US president is often called the leader of the free world. By free world is meant�?/p>
October 6, 2024, 3:58 PM IST
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Kamala Harris’s biggest mistake
September 29, 2024, 3:32 PM IST
India’s parliamentary system of democracy (inherited from the British Westminster model) is superior to the US presidential system in one aspect: every vote from every state counts in the general election. In the US, most�?/p>
September 29, 2024, 3:32 PM IST
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The fall and fall of America
January 11, 2024, 9:30 PM IST
Nations rise and fall. For 400 years, white powers dominated the world. Suddenly today, China is challenging their dominance. Hark back only a 100 years. Britannia ruled the waves. But the Germans were rising. They�?/p>
January 11, 2024, 9:30 PM IST
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Who’s the enemy nation here?
January 3, 2024, 11:24 PM IST
The head honcho of Pakistan, its army chief, Asim Munir, is just back from a 5-day trip to America, an overwhelmingly Christian nation. Perhaps the proclivities of his masters there influenced him to partake of�?/p>
January 3, 2024, 11:24 PM IST
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The Indian-American rift ever widens
December 29, 2023, 2:40 PM IST
Here are 5 reasons why: Joe Biden saying no to attending India’s Republic Day Parade. The US making a big fuss over the Khalistani radical, Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, in the recently concluded 2+2 ministerial dialogue�?/p>
December 29, 2023, 2:40 PM IST
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A more vigorous Indian foreign policy
November 15, 2023, 3:10 PM IST
What is common for India between the Israel-Hamas war and the Russian-Ukrainian war? At first glance, it seems not much. But in both wars, one party is an iron brother of India, Russia in the�?/p>
November 15, 2023, 3:10 PM IST
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