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Nishtha Anushree

Dec 24, 2022, 07:07 PM | Updated 07:20 PM IST


Why India Needs To Keep On Engaging With Myanmar Junta And Ignore Gratuitous Advice To Shun The Generals

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

India has huge stakes in some ongoing projects in Myanmar that are crucial to the fruition of India's ‘Act East’ policy.

  • MEA officials told Swarajya that New Delhi’s engagement with the junta is also dictated by the need to contain China’s expanding footprint in Myanmar.

  • New Delhi’s deepening engagement with Myanmar’s ruling military junta has caused a fair bit of hand-wringing and even anger in some capitals around the world, especially the band of planet earth’s self-proclaimed ‘conscience-keepers’ in the west.

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📖 Chip War: The Best Economics Book Of 2022 And Lessons For India

Book Cover: Chip War: The Fight For The World’s Most Critical Technology
Book Cover: Chip War: The Fight For The World’s Most Critical Technology

Almost three years after the pandemic, where lies the biggest calamity?

  • In the book, author Chris Miller documents the history of semiconductors, and how the pandemic ushered a geopolitical storm around the established supply chains.

  • Simultaneously, the book, across chapters, has several lessons for aspiring chip production economies.

  • Chris Miller answers the above question in what can be easily labelled as the best non-fiction book of the year 2022.

Year-End Roundup: The ‘Latke-Jhatke’ Politics Of Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi

The runup to the next general elections offers Rahul Gandhi an opportunity to either grow up or quit the field, for if he doesn’t, it is India which will be forced to pay a heavy price.

  • A series of elections and political events across the year show that the Congress will continue to be the nation’s principal opposition party for some time to come.

  • Although Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have repeatedly sought to wangle a seat at the high table, through an expensive, relentless, media blitz, questionable pre-poll surveys which give improbable forecasts for the AAP, and a reckless, fiscally-senseless sledgehammer pledge of boundless welfarism, they remain restricted to two states in one corner of the country — Delhi and The Punjab.

Therefore, the Congress’s politics merits in-depth scrutiny, especially as exemplified by its de facto leader, Rahul Gandhi, as we start a busy, final year filled with provincial contests, prior to the general elections of March-May 2024.

Nishtha Anushree is Senior Sub-editor at Swarajya. She tweets at @nishthaanushree.


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