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Make America Maoist asap
April 17, 2025, 7:27 AM IST
A cultural revolution is underway in America. It’s not yet clear how similar it is to Mao Zedong’s decade-long chaos-inducing mass mobilisation movement in China, the most famous cultural revolution in modern history. But there…
April 17, 2025, 7:27 AM IST
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Un-American America
April 17, 2025, 7:10 AM IST
Trump’s casual & frequent disregard of due process is robbing his country of one of its most admirable traits When Sinclair Lewis wrote a novel about America under a dictator, he named it It Can’t…
April 17, 2025, 7:10 AM IST
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The Weekly Vine Edition 38: America-Born Confident Desis
April 16, 2025, 2:28 PM IST
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. This week, we have the rise of the American-Born Confident Desis in the US, the world’s “coolest dictator”, Harvard’s clash with the Trump administration, a glam…
April 16, 2025, 2:28 PM IST
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Trump vs Harvard: If he wins, America loses
April 16, 2025, 7:36 AM IST
The richest American university will be hit by a government funding freeze because its endowments can’t be used for general financing. But a weakened Ivy League will cost US even more, and benefit China Universities…
April 16, 2025, 7:36 AM IST
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China’s rare earth pause: Smart move or big mistake?
April 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
China has stopped sending out rare earth metals and the super-strong magnets made from them for over 10 days now. These are special materials used to make things like electric cars, smartphones, rockets, and even…
April 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Beijing blunder?
April 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Curbing rare earth exports may be China’s way of projecting power, but it could backfire For over 10 days now, China has not exported rare earth metals and powerful magnets made out of them. This…
April 16, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Invisibilisation paradox: From India-Nepal ties to Russia-Ukraine war
April 15, 2025, 7:25 PM IST
Recently I was part of a panel discussion on cultural diplomacy vis-à-vis India-Nepal relations. At first glance it would appear that since India and Nepal already have millennia-old cultural ties, cultural diplomacy in this case…
April 15, 2025, 7:25 PM IST
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CampUs & them
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Does the Indian university ecosystem share the Trumpian approach to foreigners? One area in which US has a yuge trade surplus is international students. India alone sent over 3.3L students in 2023-24. How many make…
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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China is laughing at Trump — And making memes about it!
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Right now, China and the United States are in a big argument about trade—basically, they’re charging each other super high prices (called tariffs) to buy and sell stuff like shoes, phones, and clothes. This is…
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Chuckling Chinese
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
China’s social media is mocking Team Trump & giving ‘biz lessons’ to Americans. Xi would be loving this US-China trade war appears to have sparked a Chinese meme-fest. As two govts slug it out, slapping…
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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CampUs & them: Do Indian colleges welcome foreign students?
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Did you know that a lot of students from India go to study in the US? In 2023-24, over 3.3 lakh (330,000) Indian students went to American colleges! But guess how many foreign students came…
April 15, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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The Quest for an Urban Oasis
April 14, 2025, 4:46 PM IST
By 2008, for the first time, the global urban population had outnumbered the rural population. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2023 suggested that of the 8 billion people across continents, over half of them…
April 14, 2025, 4:46 PM IST
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The universal calculus of love
April 14, 2025, 7:28 AM IST
By Jug Suraiya US Vice-President JD Vance created a stir in Christian circles recently when he made a public reference to ‘Ordo amoris’, which in English translates as ‘Order of love’. The term, which is…
April 14, 2025, 7:28 AM IST
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Escape key?
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Trump’s done right by freeing IT hardware from tariffs; slapping sectoral tariffs now would be silly Good policy, like a good shirt, requires few or no alterations. But Trump is tailor swift, and his policy-making…
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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China is laughing at Trump — And making memes about it!
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Right now, China and the United States are in a big argument about trade—basically, they’re charging each other super high prices (called tariffs) to buy and sell stuff like shoes, phones, and clothes. This is…
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Escape key: Why Trump changed his mind about tech tariffs
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
Good rules don’t need to be changed too much. But former President Trump has been changing his trade rules a lot lately, especially with China, and it’s been causing problems for the U.S. economy. Between…
April 14, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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War of brands, not tariffs
April 12, 2025, 7:35 AM IST
The current tariff war would warm the cold dead remains of Adam Smith and David Ricardo. The basic assumption that Trump and his team seem bound to is the old notion that factors of production…
April 12, 2025, 7:35 AM IST
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The Wars Of Our Times
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
People & moments that led to Ukraine, Gaza, Trump 2.0 Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodword’s War is a riveting inside-the-room account of three crucial wars that have roiled the world in the last three…
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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**Die Another Day: For Trump, the Money Trouble Isn’t Over Yet**
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
This week, the U.S. government sold a lot of its bonds (kind of like IOUs where people lend money to the government and get paid back later). At first, it seemed like people still wanted…
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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Die Another Day
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
For Trump, the bond movie ain’t over yet Strong demand during US bond auctions on Wednesday and Thursday might have reassured Trump, but the selloff that started on April 9 – in response to his…
April 12, 2025, 5:00 AM IST
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