KP Nayar

Strategic Analyst

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India and South Korea are moving from cultural nostalgia to strategic necessity in a turbulent world. Ayodhya-born Princess Suriratna of 32 AD, Empress Heo, according to Korean legend, makes way for post-Gulf war Seoul-Delhi ties.

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https://t.co/9iCjk7cJdq Saudi Arabia, traditionally low profile on the outside, but firm and farsighted behind closed doors, will have enhanced role when current war ends. Gulf Arabs call each other "brothers" and are very good at window dressing differences

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A journalist-turned-politician, Devdeep Purohit—once The Telegraph’s political editor—has now been fielded by the Trinamool Congress from Khardaha in North 24 Parganas, a constituency steeped in fiscal legacy and political symbolism.

Khardaha is no ordinary seat. For decades, it was the bastion of Asim Dasgupta, the long-serving finance minister of the Left Front government, who shaped Bengal’s fiscal narrative through years of ideological and economic churn.

After the regime change in 2011, the mantle passed seamlessly to Amit Mitra, Mamata Banerjee’s trusted finance and industry minister, who retained the seat in both 2011 and 2016.

When Mitra opted out of the 2021 elections citing health reasons, it marked not just a personal exit but a pause in a curious political tradition, Khardaha as the de facto home of Bengal’s finance ministers.

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https://t.co/QDEqYmXHe4 Quietly, money, including Indian money, is moving to destinations away from economies hit by the war. The region's big sporting event after cricket, F1 Grand Prix are likely to be cancelled. 32,000 Americans have fled the Gulf.

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https://t.co/n93WyAtEe1 BNP rises in Bangladesh, Awami League retreats, India is adrift. Immense risk for India with 4,000-km porous & volatile border with Bangladesh. Be like Trump. India first, Bangladesh last. Now Indian policy is the reverse.

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https://t.co/NkIGZXjWMa This article foretold that at New Delhi AI summit, India will seek expansion of Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and attempt to make it India's AI lobby. It's happening. Saudis joined GPAI. Malta, Croatia will too.

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Caution is needed at the AI Impact Summit not to be infatuated with Indian-origin IT CEOs like Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Arvind Krishna or Shantanu Narayan. They are responsible to shareholders not to India's jobless youth via AI

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https://t.co/DNoO86kFUu Pahalgam terror attack and the Red Fort blast are going international. Extremist political Islamism, which has been on the decline since the Arab Spring died on the banks of River Nile and Somali piracy was defeated, is rising again

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Airlines sometimes go bankrupt. Civil Aviation Ministry's policies will set precedent by causing India's first airport bankruptcy. Airline duopoly lobbied to allow Indigo and Air India to fly from Kannur to the Gulf. No foreign airline

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Airports are victims of Civil Aviation Ministry's tunnel vision. Kannur Airport is an example. Bureaucrats are asphyxiating it. No permission to foreign carriers to fly to Kannur, although it is an international airport. Shortsighted.

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Gulf states & America gave up their decades-long efforts to involve in India’s airline business. Regular calls to Indian civil aviation ministers by them offers a foreign policy dimension to India's air transport and tourism crises.

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https://t.co/fyn8s6YIMO Learn from Saudi Arabia. It is a BRICS member and not a member at the same time. Be nimble-footed. India should run with Trump and hunt with Putin at the same time. Pragmatism, not principle is paramount. India First.

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https://t.co/YLbAxFa3za The choice before India is stark: follow Narasimha Rao doctrine or revive Pranab Mukherjee’s Dhaka outreach. New ruler Muhammad Yunus is wooing Trump by quadrupling US soybean purchases contrasting India's red lines on tariffs

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@SandhuTaranjitS @POTUS My condolences, Taranjit. Very sad news. I recall discussing your brother many times during his long illness.

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https://t.co/70oXSYm3Ga Modi was ill-served by his advisers, who did not create a buffer between the Prime Minister and Sergio Gor. They should have ring-fenced Modi against the possibility exposing him to Gor could have unforeseeable consequences.