Anyone with the slightest idea about Afghan dynamics will know that the 'peace talks' between the US and Taliban will not end well.
For Indians, 2019 has to be the year of resistance to what India has become and to fight for justice at all levels.
This is the time for Delhi to use years of goodwill and investments in Kabul. We must remember, there is never anything constant in Afghanistan where every change presents us with an opportunity.
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The Bigger Picture | 4-minute read
By some accounts, the economy is doing spectacularly well. At the same time, infrastructure has been deteriorating.
One of Trump’s biggest achievements is that he has got the world interested in American politics.
They need pluralistic self-understanding and self-representation, to hold their heads high in the world of religious competition and identity politics.
Pakistan and China together suppressing Balochistan's freedom movement will adversely impact security interests of the US, Afghanistan and New Delhi.
Even as the world is shocked by the brutal murder, will ethical guidelines followed by nations be "trumped" now by geopolitical and energy considerations?
The lone advantage New Delhi has is the fact that Tehran needs to sell its oil as desperately as India needs to buy it.
There is no accountability for the starvation and killings of civilians in Yemen. And with the western states, the western media is entirely complicit in this genocide.