Yash Majiwala
@yash23597
Followers
1K
Following
1M
Media
33
Statuses
14K
Struggling to get settled before to be wanderer.
Gujarat
Joined January 2017
This is a #brilliant essay. Just enjoyed reading it. Punches hard.
China now faces a future of uninspiring growth, writes Bilahari Kausikan.
0
5
28
My article in the @NewIndianXpress today takes a fresh look at Indo-US relations: is building a bridge possible? https://t.co/xCNPlt7Jis
22
61
424
10 years after last India-Africa Summit… Time for the next chapter to be written.✍
2
49
218
‘One of the things that was strange about Naipaul was that when he first started going to India, when it actually was in much better shape, politically and culturally, he didn’t like it at all. And the more Hindu it got, the more he bought into it.’ https://t.co/stAJetT7s6
granta.com
‘It was awful to get sued by the prime minister of India.’ Granta interviews Salman Rushdie about his dealings with the magazine, the course of Indian fiction, and his brushes with Indian politics.
54
67
364
Prashant Kishor's election performance reminds me of what happens when literary critics write their debut novels.
82
533
5K
My #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress today points to one of the sobering lessons of the recent “G-2” summit in Busan: India should build its own leverage in dealing with either the US or China
59
109
762
Pakistan and China show a Black & White example of Civil Military fusion. Pakistan's flawed model is to be shunned, but we can learn from China. An excellent account of Civil Military Fusion as a metric of National Power has been written by @Gen_RajShukla. My weekend read this..
2
19
90
Bonkers to claim that Indian vloggers covering China positively would prevent Indian govt from responding to territorial threats. But yes, if more people to people contacts prevents India from getting sucked into others’ wars then that’s good.
On this platform, I am noticing a surge in Indian accounts, mostly travellers & vloggers, showcasing their travel photos of China, highlighting 🇨🇳’s developments, & encouraging fellow Indians to visit. On the surface, this appears innocent: young Indians comparing 🇨🇳’s
2
2
31
Genetic analysis proved that Mr. Li Dan, who kept spreading Buddhism in northern China 1400 years ago, is an ancient Indian descendant. His tomb in northern China contained both Chinese and Indian elements, which is a gem of cultural exchanges on the Silk Road.🤝🤝
299
3K
17K
4
42
226
'Vikram Sood, one of India's greatest spymasters who has spent his career in the dark corridors of cloak-and-dagger, gives some cold, hard insight into the realities of today's world and suggests how India should play the long game.' @Vikram_Sood interviewed about his new book,
ndtv.com
Vikram Sood, one of India's greatest spymasters who has spent his career in the dark corridors of cloak-and-dagger, gave some cold, hard insight into the realities of today's world and also suggested...
0
1
2
‘Vande Mataram’ was the First Proclamation of Cultural Nationalism. On the 150th anniversary of ‘Vande Mataram’, penned an article for @htTweets. #VandeMataram150
189
1K
2K
"A quarter century ago, 'engaging' America was viewed as also a means to 'manage' China. Today engaging China seems to have become a means to manage America."
0
17
105
.@RHFontaine and @gibbs_mckinley discuss how the Trump administration has strained the United States’ relations with Brazil, India, and South Africa—and warn that it is “profoundly unwise” for Washington to push friendly BRICS members away. https://t.co/xErdnKlteY
foreignaffairs.com
Washington is driving the BRICS to become an anti-American bloc.
0
4
11
The G-2 shock but who had the upper hand? My latest for the @EconomicTimes on the Trump-Xi meet.
12
50
193
My essay in @Openthemag looks at the history of liberalism in India, its decline into political irrelevance and the case for its revival as a robust ideology of inclusive centrism:
42
122
640