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AEI Fellow, WSJ Columnist, FP Twitterati 100. Author of My Friend the Fanatic. (I share news and opinion from South Asia and the world.)

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  1. Retweeted
    Jun 14

    In its face-off with the army, Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahafuz Movement has one big advantage. It’s speaking the truth. [My take] v

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  2. 3 hours ago

    Arvind Subramanian has garnered something exceedingly rare these days: respect across party lines. Arun Jaitley is tom-tomming his work as CEA. Rahul Gandhi is sniping at the government over his departure. They both agree that Subramanian was an asset for India.

    My statement on the announcement of my departure from the job of CEA.
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  3. 9 hours ago

    .: In the past decade, the UN Human Rights Council has passed more resolutions to condemn than to condemn Syria, Iran and North Korea combined. The US will no longer be party to this deeply flawed institution. via

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  4. 15 hours ago

    Reason #1868 to admire Japan.

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  5. 17 hours ago

    As Indian Chief Economic Advisor ⁦⁩ returns to the U.S., Finance Minister ⁦⁩ pens a warm and generous send-off.

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  6. Jun 19

    The unlikely BJP-PDP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir has finally come apart. [After making a hash of things.]

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  7. Jun 19

    Allison: The rise of China, the resurgence of Russia, and the decline of the US share of global power each present much larger challenges to the liberal international order than Trump. [Long read]

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  8. Jun 18

    In rural Bengal political parties control all aspects of social life, including mediation in family affairs like marriage. [On the state’s tradition of blood-soaked, winner-takes-all politics.]

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  9. Jun 18

    .⁦⁩: Only people with nothing to lose win on social media. It’s tailor-made for trolls, precisely because their opinion comes cheap, and carries no reciprocal cost.

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  10. Jun 17

    .⁦⁩: As before, Quad members “have proven incapable of adopting either a shared understanding of or unified policies toward China.”

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  11. Jun 17

    . says “is the most significant conservative thinker to appear in the English-speaking world in a generation.” v

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  12. Jun 17

    As Pakistan’s dollar reserves plunge yet again it looks to China for a bailout. But Beijing is not chiefly responsible for the problem, and may not step up.

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  13. Jun 17

    Don’t agree w/ entire list but is right about (nutty) demon and (sloppy) GST.

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  14. Jun 17

    Me to mother-in-law, in my most knowledgeable tone: “Mexico last beat Germany in 1985.” [Learned that from TV two minutes ago.]

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  15. Jun 17

    Comparing with Che Guevara is patently absurd: 1. Pashteen and are self-consciously non-violent. 2. They seek human rights, not to overthrow Pakistan’s government.

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  16. Jun 16

    .: The enduring heritage of a place is not in its buildings. It’s in manners and ways of standing and types of humour and exquisite proverbs, and marriage vows, and also in gods, and, of course, high-carb food. [On Thiruvananthapuram.]

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  17. Jun 16

    Kesavan: Killings of Gauri Lankesh and Shujaat Bukhari “show that the journalists most at risk in India are those who report from a ground zero that is also their home.”

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  18. Jun 16

    .⁦⁩ wonders if the BJP effort to create goodwill among people well-regarded locally can counter “noisy intellectuals” opposed to the party.

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  19. Jun 16

    .⁦⁩: Thanks to Modi’s lack of a Kashmir policy the Valley seems once more to be in the hands of faceless terrorist groups.

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  20. Jun 16

    Important point by : Three years after switching to a new way of calculating GDP growth, India is yet to release revised historical figures. This creates a credibility problem for official Indian data.

    Dear & : Are you hiding something? Publish the back series of GDP (like USA, China, Brazil, Turkey, others have done). It has been 3 years since the methodological change.
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  21. Retweeted
    Jun 15

    Opinion: Pakistan’s Pashtuns Take On the Army—and Terrorists, by

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