He’s a former Indian career diplomat who has served in the United Kingdom and has also been India’s permanent representative to the United Nation but Hardeep Singh Puri—now a minister in the Narendra Modi government—likes to describe himself as “somebody who has professionally studied the false narrative”. In an interview with SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin A. Gokhale, Puri, who was among the few people who had famously predicted that Donald Trump would become the 45th President of the United States, cites his reasons for doing so in the face of a deluge of opinion polls predicting Hillary Clinton’s win. Puri, whose second book “Delusional Politics” was launched recently, also delves into history to cite how Adolf Hitler goofed up big time when he was so close to winning the Second World War. The minister also says multilateralism is going through an existential crisis at the United Nations, and that Brexit was a decision Britain could have done without.
The Hormuz closure wasn't a miscalculation — it was the missing piece. With maritime routes uninsurable and IMEC the last corridor standing, Trump has seized control of global trade infrastructure through a private governance body accountable to no one but its chairman for life.
India's Ujjwala Yojana gave 100 million poor women clean cooking fuel and changed rural life forever. But every cylinder traveled through a single 33-kilometer strait. No reserve was built. No alternative was prepared. When Hormuz closed, the real catastrophe unfolded.
Examination infrastructure provided by TCS has shown to be compromised by groups within and from outside. It is time to consider these companies as "National Champions" and brought under proper security regulations.
Four years. Nine FIRs. A Malaysia-linked handler. A WhatsApp targeting dashboard. And a company that holds the keys to JEE, NEET, and India's banking exams. Is TCS Nashik case merely a workplace scandal? No. It is organized civilizational and economic warfare against Hindu India.
