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Can New Delhi learn to stop worrying and test the bomb?

Less than an hour before meeting Xi Jinping, US President Trump ordered the US Department of Defence to resume nuclear testing after 33 years. In 2025, the options are clear for New Delhi: adhere to a self-imposed ban on nuclear weapons testing even as rival powers continue to test their weapons, or New Delhi can declare it is has no reason to halt its nuclear weapons program at a time when the Americans have expressed their intent to conduct their own tests, and even more importantly, have admitted that powers hostile to India have been testing their weapons while we have not. 
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Greenhouses are India’s way forward in the climate crisis

For the foreseeable future, each year will exceed the previous in average temperature. Hotter, longer summers are terrible for agriculture whether they are combined with unusually heavy or unusually scarce rains. Extreme-weather events already occur all year round, and extreme-heat days are set to occupy most of the Indian summer. The writing is on the wall: farming in India must adapt to protect its farmers and its people against the rapidly degrading environment. For the country with the largest domestic demand for food, India is far behind the curve. 
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Borrowed language, borrowed ideas, borrowed consciousness

When the British began teaching us English, they put the capstone on a thousand-year process of scrambling the Indian brain. It is the imperative of the conquered to apply such power as they possess in absolute resistance, without regard for success or extinction. That was the way of the Americans, the Haitians, and many other colonised nations that successfully fought against worse odds than we ever faced. The coward's way of compromise and negotiation with the conqueror has given India, in the case of language, the obscene feebleness of modern Indian society.
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Poison people and make billions

When it comes to narcotics, America has one border problem and India has two. Stuck between the Golden Crescent of Af-Pak & Iran and the Golden Triangle of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos, two of the deadliest drug-producing regions of the world. The hostile states of China and Pakistan are actively directing the drug trade against India as part of their destabilisation efforts against the largest democratic nation on earth. To turn the tide before the rot sets in, New Delhi needs to take executive action exceeding recent US presidential decrees designating drug producers and smugglers as terrorists and possibly freeing up US enforcement agencies and the US military to treat them in the same manner. 
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2023 state elections and the road to 2024

With the new year India has entered a breathless election cycle. 10 states are going to the polls along with a slew of Parliamentary by-polls in the coming months. Soon after, in May 2024, the BJP will complete a historic ten years in power. The ruling party will then battle it out at the hustings against Congress and regional parties to remain in government.
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