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President Donald Trump needs no introduction. Trump was the guy who came to India and attended a Modi jamboree at the 'Modi Stadium', where cricket is played and the ball of whichever colour, red or white, never sails out of the stadium's perimeter, it's that big!

It is wrong to construe that Narendra Modi is for reforms. Though certainly not an alien word, it nonetheless occupies the lowest slot on the doormat of his agenda. His May 30 visit to Rohtas and Bikramganj in the western Bihar is the second in last twenty days with four more visits in the pipeline during the next two months.

Amidst the present battle between India and China over the sharing of the manufacture of American high tech company Apple’s iPhones, Chinese daily Global Times, in its latest commentary has appreciated India’s expertise in manufacturing Apple’s iPhones but at the same time said that it will take some more time for India to compete with China as a manufacturer at the level of China.

By the time Washington and Beijing released their latest joint statement on May 12 - ostensibly pressing pause on a spiraling tariff war - much of the world exhaled in cautious relief. But beneath the performative diplomacy and sterile communiqués, a quieter suffering has gone largely unheard. For the world’s most vulnerable economies, the damage is neither paused nor negotiable. It is metastasizing.

There is hardly any opening left for employment creation. Touching the bottom level, it shows massive decline in the job availability in rural areas in last two months, indicating fresh economic strain and worsening level of deprivation. As per a report published recently in “Mint”, a surge in the demand for unskilled work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was witnessed in April and May this year.

The global economic outlook has worsened since the start of the year 2025, as rising economic nationalism and tariff volatility fuel uncertainty and risk stalling long-term decision-making, according to a World Economic Forum report released on Wednesday in Geneva.

The unprecedented humanitarian crisis going on in Gaza is extremely disturbing. No sane and sensitive person can ever condone this on any pretext. Only the beastly instinct can make one kill the innocent toddlers. With an official figure of over 55000 people killed out of which 70% are women and children, the situation is beyond condemnation.

On May 27, 1964 at 1.44 PM, India's first Prime Minister and one of the best chroniclers of this great nation's history breathed his last at his residence Teen Murti Bhavan. Nehru along with Indira Gandhi came back to Delhi on May 26 afternoon after a three day holiday in Dehradun. Nehru had not been keeping well since his last stroke at the Bhubaneswar session of AICC in January of 1964. After a short rest, the 74 year old Prime Minister, took to his normal schedule despite the requests by his panel of doctors to go slow. For Nehru, work was worship, and when he was not doing official work, he was reading.

The leaders and top officials of the ruling establishment led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi have just boasted of India replacing Japan as fourth largest economy of the world, falsely giving an impression that economy is performing well. The data speak otherwise. There has been rise in indebtedness among the poor, and the poor borrowers are increasingly unable to return their loans. Microfinance loan delinquencies have jumped 163 per cent in 2024-25, financial institutions are applying break on providing them loan, after warning issued by the Reserve Bank of India. It is resulting in the poor people falling in the hands of private money lenders extracting exorbitant interest rates making their lives more miserable. It is a serious issue that needs urgent attention of the Government.

One good thing coming out of India's "4-Day War", aka 'Operation Sindoor', is the thaw in relations between Pakistan and Iran, two Islamic countries which share a border and often end up trading fire across the same border. Iran is a country worth cultivating or left to its own devices. Pakistan, on the other hand, can be left to its own devices only at India's peril.