The new Maldives Government is pulling out all stops in resetting ties with India. Foreign Minister Abdulla Shahid, Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer and Economic Development Minister Fayyaz Ismail have met India’s National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and other officials on their first overseas visit. The Finance Minister has asked for an increase in the amount and roll-over time for a $200 million currency swap facility and immediate budgetary support of $250-350 million that are expected to be signed during President Ibrahim Solih’s first State visit, to India, on December 17. Ameer told SNI’s Associate Editor that an exact amount of the estimated $3.2 billion Chinese debt and the status of the country’s only the Free Trade Agreement—with China—will be announced within a week.
Disruptive promise of and June 12th US ban on Mythos shook the world. There are competing AI visions - Krishna vs Clarke. Convergence of Quantum, AGI/ASI and Crypto may unprecedentedly destroy our world if not enslave humanity.
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.
