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June’s meeting between U.S. President Biden and India’s Prime Minister Modi advanced the U.S.-India connection to a new level. While the relationship falls short of an actual alliance and India and the U.S. may often differ, the alignment of national interests continues to deepen. This was evident in the scope and breadth of cooperative agreements
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Introduction China on August 28, 2023 released her new Standard Map claiming Indian State of Arunachal Pradesh to be its territory, South Tibet. China also showed Aksai Chin region occupied by it in the 1962 India-China War as part of China in the map. External affairs minister of India, S Jaishankar strongly refuted the claim
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting Jakarta, Indonesia on September 6-7 to participate in the 20th ASEAN-India Summit and 18th East Asia Summit. The high-profile G20 Summit on September 9-10 may have somewhat overshadowed the ASEAN-India Summit. However this ASEAN-India Summit is important since it has the potential to shape and strengthen India’s relations with
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The writers’ strike in Hollywood has been going on for four months, and we are now reaching the stage where the pipeline of new content being produced by the entertainment industry in the US is being exhausted. If this continues, I might have to eat through the entire legacy streaming catalogue of Netflix, Amazon Prime
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China holding up consensus on Ukraine paras, and its leader skipping the meet are aimed at degrading India-hosted G20. But Beijing’s joust with New Delhi will continue long after the summit Did anyone seriously believe Chinese president Xi Jinping or Russian president Vladimir Putin would actually show up at India’s G20 summit? This was a
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Here is an attempt to rewrite this edit in the style of gangster Al Capone: Look here, pal. Xi Jinping ain’t gonna hop on a plane to New Delhi for the big bash. And don’t think it don’t mean nothing. The Chinks are playing it smart, see? First off, he don’t wanna bump into Joe Biden,
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That Xi Jinping won’t be travelling to New Delhi for the G20 summit won’t make any material difference to the event itself. But the Chinese know this. Xi’s no-show must be read politically. First, it is quite possible that Xi did not want to come faceto-face with US President Joe Biden who will be attending
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Child of Indian immigrants, Harvard and Yale Law graduate, finance and biotech billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy is presently in The Donald’s good books. But what’s more amazeballs than the former president saying that Ramaswamy could make a “very good” veep is around 10% of Republicans telling pollsters that they plan to vote for Ramaswamy for president!
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Bharat is a land of stories and storytellers. Wandering bards recited our stories over generations. We built a treasure house of tales including itihasa and puranas. The Ramayan was narrated in 300 ways and reached far-flung Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan and China. Modern India has been consistently poor at managing its storytelling. What explains this?
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Nobody gives a damn about Taliban’s twisted sense of humor and how it makes Afghan women laugh till they cry. The latest punchline from Taliban’s comedy club is to ban women from parks. Women in Afghanistan are already forbidden from learning, teaching, working, earning, or even having fun. UN clowns warn of a mental breakdown,
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