Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s bid to be seen as a statesman by releasing Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman has not passed muster with either India or the international community. In a chat with Ashwin Ahmad, SNI’s Editor-in-Chief Nitin Gokhale and Editor Surya Gangadharan point out that pressure on social media and the complete isolation of Pakistan on the world stage on this issue, with even its “all weather” friend China providing a muted response, suggests that Islamabad would have had to release the Indian pilot soon anyway. With sympathies firmly with India and the fact that terrorism is now more of a global concern post-ISIS, the world has shown that it respects India’s right to strike back against terror strikes and that they are no longer fooled by Pakistan’s excuses. #India #Pakistan #Pulwamaretaliation
Musk promises abundance for all. A Scottish earl explained 200 years ago why the machines that make everything will make their owners richer than ever, and everyone else dependent. The real question was never the size of your ration. It is who owns the river, and who holds the rod above him.
Disparagement humor is a built and financed weapon. It boxes a people with a label, hardens the label into stigma, and makes the sacred laughable until a civilization forgets why it was worth saving. Rome never learned this lesson. However, India needs to. Ask - Who is paying for the laughter?
India's exam crisis is real. NEET leaked. JEE was hacked. CBSE's answer sheets were blurred. But the movement built on student anger arrived too organized, scaled too fast, and demands regime change — not reform. A sixty-year-old doctrine explains exactly what is happening.
The post-Cold War order is fading, but the next world order has yet to emerge. As America, China, Europe, and Russia reposition for an uncertain future, old assumptions are collapsing. This is the story of borrowed power, strategic decline, rising rivals, and a world caught between eras.
