With the tremendous power it wields, the U.S. does not have, in real terms, any allies. All it has are servants. But
Author: Omair Ahmad
Omair Ahmad is an author. His last novel, Jimmy the Terrorist, was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, and won the Crossword Award. His last book was a political history of Bhutan and the eastern Himalayan region. He is concurrently the Managing Editor, South Asia, at The Third Pole.
Syria is the latest in a series of Indian foreign policy disasters. But can the government’s clear lack of vision on that front explain the flagrant haplessness of the Indian state on the global stage?
It is hard to reconcile the long list of brutalities and a government validating hate toward its Muslim minority. But the leaders are not the country. Elections are when people get to choose new ones.