Mariya Ahmed Didi is the Maldives’ first woman Defence Minister. She is also the country’s first woman lawyer and the first female to be chosen as her party(MDP) chairperson. In her first interview since being elevated from the post of President Ibrahim Solih’s spokesperson, she speaks freely to SNI’s Associate Editor Amitabh P Revi about the nadir ties with India reached, how China is not part of the Indian Ocean region and whether the new coalition will hold. In this Exclusive interview, Mariya Didi also outlines how India can help depoliticise the Forces.
From Iran's burning strait to Pakistan's quiet unraveling, from Beijing's Taiwan calculus to Europe's frozen reckoning — five crises, one collapsing architecture, and the nations already building on the ruins of what the world pretended was permanent.
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.
