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Since the 1950s, India has tried unsuccessfully to establish a semiconductor industry. Will the current effort have better luck? [My take] v @WSJopinion
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Can India establish a viable semiconductor industry? If things go as planned, the country could emerge as a significant player in global supply chains, writes @dhume
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Can India establish a viable semiconductor industry? If things go as planned, the country could emerge as a significant player in global supply chains, writes @dhume
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The Right needs to use the term Islamist accurately instead of as a smear or shorthand for “Muslim candidate I don’t like.” You can oppose Mamdani or El-Sayed for good reasons, but neither is an Islamist. Nothing in their platforms suggests support for sharia law.
politifact.com/factchecks/202…
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It’s Election Day in the U.S. @MilanV and colleagues survey the sharp drop in Indian-American support for the GOP compared to two years ago.
🧵 1/ Hot off the press: Ahead of the U.S. midterms, new IAAS survey data on the political preferences of Indian Americans. carnegieendowment.org/research/2026/…
This is joint work w/ @kharibiskut of @AmericanU, Devesh Kapur of @SAISHopkins, and Annabel Miller & Andy Robaina @CarnegieSAsia
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Congratulations to the lovely couple! @Nidhi @OmarAbdullah
It’s done bro 💍 @OmarAbdullah
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Why have foreign portfolio investors dramatically cooled on India? Akash Prakash has a sobering explanation.
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Arguably Pakistan never recovered from this direct military intervention in politics in 1958 even though in terms of economic performance Ayub Khan’s rule wasn’t bad.
Ayub Khan Appointing Bhutto as his minister of commerce. Pakistan’s first Chief Martial Law Administrator cabinet swearing-in ceremony.
📍Karachi — 1958 🇵🇰
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Could Vivek Ramaswamy publicly celebrate a Hindu festival and hope to be accepted by MAGA? I think we all know the answer.
This week, I was blessed to join Hindu New Yorkers in Queens celebrating Navratri, Durga Puja, Dashain, and Vijayadashami.
We danced garba, performed aarti, witnessed Sindoor Khela, and honored the Goddess Durga.
It was an honor to come together in joy, faith, and community in — especially after the attempted mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Illinois last week.
May we all join together in our shared responsibility to stand against hate and care for one another.
Jai Mata Ki.
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Elon Musk blunders in the Indian market. To bring his Starlink satellite internet network to the country, he will need to rethink his diplomatic approach, writes @dhume
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Elon Musk’s recent outbursts against Mukesh Ambani prove one thing. The world’s richest man doesn’t get India. [My take] v @WSJopinion
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Indian democracy has long been known for working hard to extend the franchise to every possible voter. @MilanV explains how, for the first time, a botched voter roll update exercise raises questions about this commitment.
My column in today’s @FT: A democracy that once went looking for voters is increasingly demanding that voters prove they belong giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/ac…
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Thoughtful piece by @SamuelFitouss10 on how rapid improvements in AI-generated writing could eventually force real writers out of the profession.
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The breathtaking arrogance of some guy with the handle @12345678910 toward @VGokhale59, a former Indian foreign secretary and ambassador to China is a bit much even for this site. Mr. Gokhale speaks fluent Mandarin, has published multiple books, and is widely acknowledged as one of the most astute China watchers in the world. This does’t mean that Mr. 123456 needs to agree with him, but it shouldn’t be too much to expect a modicum of civility.
I am Chinese, and of course I speak from a Chinese perspective—what is there to reproach me for? Are Indian researchers supposed to interpret the border issue from a Chinese perspective? Moreover, even if I made a neutral and objective statement, would Indians believe it? You would still say I am not neutral or objective. As long as I am Chinese, Indians will never believe me.
Take Neville Maxwell of Australia—his research was neutral and objective enough, was it not? He worked as a journalist in Delhi for several years. He was once pro-India and unfriendly toward China, but when his India’s China War was published, India banned it. Why? Because the historical facts it described were regarded by the Indian government as anti-India. Indians may say within India that the war with China was Nehru’s fault, or the product of Kaul’s arrogance, and so on—but in external propaganda, it must always be China’s fault. That is no longer serious research.
I have carefully studied the Sino-Indian border dispute of 1962, including primary sources from both China and India, and I have tried to conduct my research from as neutral and objective a standpoint as possible. My research is more thorough than Maxwell’s, because I have access to abundant Chinese-language materials, yet my conclusions are almost identical to his. By both reason and justice, the party responsible for the 1962 war—and the greatest obstacle to resolving the current border situation—is India.
India’s current China studies are very poor. The core reason is the lack of Chinese perspectives and sources, which leads to interpretations of China that are almost entirely wrong, even laughable. If Indians wish to learn from historical experience, the right approach is to engage seriously with Chinese people, to discover the truths and facts that India failed to notice at the time, and thereby avoid repeating such a tragedy—not to treat an excellent Chinese scholar of India with a condescending sense of superiority.
Saying this will certainly be hard for many Indians to accept. OK, I understand the pain of Indians—who does not want their country to stand on the moral high ground? If you wish to refute me, then please present your research.
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.@amitabhmattoo: India and the US have never had greater reasons to be friends. And yet, we are witnessing what may be the lowest point in New Delhi’s engagement with Washington since the end of the Cold War.
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If you had to pick the most charismatic of India’s Gen Z protest leaders who would you choose? (Feel free to share a comment explaining your reasons.)
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One of the most heartwarming things about India is the comfort people have around small children, and their assumption that this will be shared by strangers.
After I deplane from an Etihad flight in Bangalore, I reach the short escalator that leads to immigration at the same time as a young family. The husband is carrying a bag and walks a few steps ahead. The wife is carrying a toddler and holding the hand of a little girl in pink, who must be three or fours years old.
I motion to the lady to pass ahead of me. She hesitates for a moment, then says, matter of factly, “you hold her hand,” as she slips her daughter’s little palm in mine. She’s kind of asking me, but she’s also kind of just telling me. She assumes (rightly) that this is the natural order.
It’s a short escalator ride—less than a minute—and once we’ve cleared it the girl returns to her mother and the family returns to its formation. I thank them silently for a quietly beautiful moment.
After I deplane from an Etihad flight in Bangalore, I reach the short escalator that leads to immigration at the same time as a young family. The husband is carrying a bag and walks a few steps ahead. The wife is carrying a toddler and holding the hand of a little girl in pink, who must be three or fours years old.
I motion to the lady to pass ahead of me. She hesitates for a moment, then says, matter of factly, “you hold her hand,” as she slips her daughter’s little palm in mine. She’s kind of asking me, but she’s also kind of just telling me. She assumes (rightly) that this is the natural order.
It’s a short escalator ride—less than a minute—and once we’ve cleared it the girl returns to her mother and the family returns to its formation. I thank them silently for a quietly beautiful moment.
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.@pstanpolitics: “If Trump 2.0 has shown anything thus far, it is that India is not structurally ordained to be favored by the US as it competes with China.” paulstaniland.com/2026/10/10/us-…
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