File photo of Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado and US President Donald Trump. (Agencies) I still miss the inimitable tag line, Tukde Tukde Gang, literally meaning ‘fragments’, after all these eleven tumultuous years of Indian politics. It was the political catchphrase invented by India’s ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party, revelling in the sheer exuberance of … Continue reading "Neocons celebrate Donald Trump’s humiliation. Why it matters " The post Neocons celebrate Do...| Indian Punchline
Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrated Diwali with Border Security Force , Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel near Indo-Pak border in Kutch, Gujarat, Oct 31, 2024 (File photo) In the Jean-Jacques Annaud film based on William Craig’s 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, Nikita Khrushchev, immediately after arriving in Stalingrad front as the … Continue reading "Sir Creek comes alive from slumber" The post Sir Creek comes alive from slumber appeared fir...| Indian Punchline
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Donald Trump held a meeting to announce Gaza Plan at a joint press conference, White House, Washington, Sept 29, 2025 The much-awaited olive branch from India to the Trump Administration to let bygones be bygones comes as a pleasant surprise with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s exuberant … Continue reading "India, Pakistan in dead heat to promote Trump’s Nobel" The post India, Pakistan in dead heat to promote Trump’s Nob...| Indian Punchline
US President Donald Trump (R) aired frustrations that his efforts to end the Ukraine war are not working with Russian President Vladimir Putin The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov came out of a meeting in New York in the weekend with the US S secretary of State Marco Rubio showing a thumbs-up sign as he … Continue reading "Ukraine war at crossroads as Trump pulls out"| Indian Punchline
Former diplomat M K Bhadrakumar argues India must break free from US dominance, trade pressures, and H-1B visa woes to embrace a Swadeshi cultural reset. India’s muted response to US provocations contrasts sharply with South Korea’s assertiveness https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/india-needs-a-cultural-revolution-to-get-rid-of-the-american-dream-3741109#google_vignette The post India needs a cultural revolution to get rid of the American Dream appeared first on Indian Punchline.| Indian Punchline
Chabahar Port, Iran, File Photo God giveth and God taketh away, the Bible says. The US State Department announcement to reimpose sanctions on India’s Chabahar Port project in Iran fits into the Biblical maxim, although from a theological viewpoint, Job might have uttered those words at a moment of great distress having suffered devastating losses, … Continue reading "Chabahar sanctions is a strategic move by US" The post Chabahar sanctions is a strategic move by US appeared first on India...| Indian Punchline
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng to discuss trade issues at Madrid, Sept 14-15, 2025 How far US President Donald Trump’s goodwill towards India and its PM Narendra Modi via social media would translate into action remains to be seen. Trump does have a master plan in mind to put … Continue reading "Trump threw India under the bus to appease China but things only got complicated"| Indian Punchline
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin share the latter’s limo to have a 50-minute conversation en route to the venue of their bilateral meeting, Tianjin, China, September 1, 2025 India found itself in an uncomfortable situation like a cat on a hot roof at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation event in Tianjin, China, … Continue reading "India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU"| Indian Punchline
Billboard of pictures of nuclear scientists and centrifuges captioned ‘Science is the power’, Enqelab square, Tehran, August 29, 2025 There is extremely alarming news about the situation around Iran. In consultations with the Trump administration — rather, in deference to the command from Washington — the E3 countries (Britain, France and Germany) who are the … Continue reading "West Asia is lurching toward war"| Indian Punchline
The U.S. President Donald Trump ruled out the possibility of trade negotiations with India until the issue of tariffs is resolved, White House, Washington, August 7, 2025 Reserve Bank of India Governor Sanjay Malhotra’s remark on Wednesday that the US tariff hike is unlikely to have any “major impact” on India’s economy, “subject to retaliatory … Continue reading "India’s existential angst to confront Western imperialism" The post India’s existential angst to confront Western ...| Indian Punchline
Russian President Vladimir Putin (3rd from left on top) met with heads of international news agencies, St. Petersburg, June 19, 2025 Putin in reflective mood muses on US-Iran confrontation The US President Donald Trump who sought President Vladimir Putin’s active help a fortnight ago to mediate in the negotiations over Iran nuclear issue has … Continue reading "Middle East in Crisis – 4"| Indian Punchline
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Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s senior aide on Russia negotiations, is expected to kickstart talks with Tehran (File photo) The rubric of the US-Iranian talks slated for Saturday in Muscat turned into a vanity fair of sorts — whether the talks should be called ‘indirect’ or ‘direct’. The US President Donald Trump sought direct talks and … Continue reading "Steve Witkoff’s Iran mission holds seamless possibilities"| Indian Punchline
Russian president’s Special Representative on investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev had two days of consultations with US administration officials, Washington, DC, April 3, 2025 The visit by the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and special representative of the Russian president for investment and economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev to Washington on April 2-3, the … Continue reading "Russia and the US made “three steps forward” after two days of consultations...| Indian Punchline
Ukraine’s president Vladimir Zelensky (L) with European leaders and NATO chief at the European summit, Paris, March 27, 2025 In an unguarded moment, perhaps, ex-UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out recently in an interview that the ultranationalist elements who rule the roost in Kiev are a formidable obstacle to ending the war in Ukraine. For … Continue reading "A Third Way to end the war in Ukraine"| Indian Punchline
The US special envoy for Middle East Steve Witkoff has disclosed that Tehran has made back channel contacts following a recent letter from President Trump (L) addressed to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) suggesting talks. The air is thick with the prognosis that a military confrontation between the US and Iran is now … Continue reading "Talk of US-Iran war is all a load of baloney"| Indian Punchline
An April 2023 satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC showing construction on an underground facility in the tangled mountains somewhere near Iran’s Natanz nuclear site which has been targeted by Israeli sabotage attacks multiple times Iran’s Islamic revolution is in transition My one-week visit to Tehran to observe the presidential election last June came … Continue reading "Trump bends the arc of history in West Asia – Part I"| Indian Punchline
A section of Bratstvo (“Brotherhood”) transit gas pipeline, in a forest near Mukachevo, western Ukraine (File photo) The dataset by the Brussels-based think tank Brugel aggregating the data on European natural gas import flows and storage levels puts in perspective Ukraine’s decision to halt the transit of Russian gas to Europe. The statistics reveal that … Continue reading "Kiev plays games with Russian gas transit"| Indian Punchline
President-elect Donald Trump with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy at Mar-a-Lago, Florida on Saturday Jan. 4, 2024 ESTRAGON: Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me! VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you? ESTRAGON: You let me go. — Waiting for Godot, by Samuel Beckett One great transformation of the … Continue reading "Ukraine war turns into absurdist fiction"| Indian Punchline
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (R) met Prime Minister of Russia Mikhail Mishustin (L), Tehran, October 30, 2024 The US president Joe Biden sprang a surprise during a press gaggle with reporters outside the White House on Thursday when he essentially didn’t rule out a potential meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming summits … Continue reading "West Asian crisis prompts Biden to break ice with Putin"| Indian Punchline
Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower transits through the Suez Canal towards the Persian Gulf , November 4, 2023 A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and … Continue reading "US embarks on proxy war against Iran"| Indian Punchline
