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💥The crucial unknown in the high-stakes diplomacy is Donald Trump’s idea of what an acceptable ‘deal’ is An unusual charm offensive is under way on the Korean peninsula and the unlikely architect is none other than the North Korean Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un. During the last three months, he has played a deft political hand, a far cry from his rhetorical exchanges with U.S. President Donald Trump. Last year, Mr. Trump was threatening the “Rocket Man” with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”; the North Korean leader described him as a “dotard” and his military called his statement “as a load of nonsense”. Now the two leaders are planning a summit in May which according to Mr. Trump could lead to “the greatest deal in the world”. Since 2011 when Mr. Kim took over, North Korea has conducted four nuclear tests; the first two were conducted in 2006 and 2009. The sixth test, last September, had a yield more than six times the Hiroshima bomb. He has accelerated the m...

💧The Centre is to blame for the dispute going into another round of litigation It is unfortunate that the Cauvery dispute is once again before the Supreme Court, barely weeks after the final verdict. The Centre is to blame for the dispute going into another round of litigation. While Tamil Nadu has moved the court to initiate contempt proceedings against the Centre for not complying with the direction to frame a scheme to implement the water-sharing arrangement set out in the February 16 judgment, the Centre has sought three more months and some clarifications in the court order. It is difficult to believe the issue at hand is so perplexing that the Centre had no option but to come back to the court. It appears that it does not want to handle the issue until the Karnataka Assembly elections get over in mid-May. Political and electoral considerations appear to have dictated the Centre’s action. It is almost as if it believes that as long as the option of buying further time is av...

👇The no-trust motion against Sri Lankan PM Wickremesinghe will test the ruling alliance Nearly two months after its drubbing in the local government polls, Sri Lanka’s ruling alliance continues to be under enormous uncertainty, and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe now faces a no-confidence motion. Initiated by the “Joint Opposition”, a loose coalition of legislators supporting former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, it has been scheduled for a marathon 12-hour session in Parliament on April 4, to be followed by a vote. Tensions in the national unity government of President Maithripala Sirisena and PM Wickremesinghe bubbled over soon after the poll results, in which a Rajapaksa-backed party outdid the two major parties in power, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the United National Party. Many legislators from Mr. Maithripala’s SLFP blamed the PM for the poll debacle, and demanded that he resign. While Mr. Sirisena has not publicly endorsed the demand, his dissatisfaction with Mr. W...

☝Fifty years after his assassination, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ‘revolution of values’ resonates just as clearly We commonly say that historical figures are best known for their deeds. What manner of man was Martin Luther King, Jr.? To answer this question, it would be wise to first look at King’s biography for the deeds and then to his philosophy for the mind behind those deeds. Many people judge King by the story of his life, for to them this story means his deeds. Practically everything has been said about his personal and public life. However, not much has been written about his philosophy. It seems, then, that the answer to the question can be provided only by studying his intellectual evolution. 👉Struggle against injustice To study King’s philosophy is to study how he grew from being the son and grandson of a Baptist priest to a prophet of non-violence. It is from this that he derived what he later called “a revolution of values” in American society. Revolution...

💥Unless the concerns of States are addressed, the fault lines in the Indian federation could deepen Federalism is once again the focus of political discourse in India. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah set the cat among the pigeons when he highlighted Kannada pride by unveiling an official state flag last month. Then in a Facebook post on “Regional Identity & Federalism”, he advocated the need for States to have both financial and cultural autonomy. Since quitting the National Democratic Alliance, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has also been vocal in criticising the Central government for taxing the southern States to spend on the northern States. And also in March, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s working president M.K. Stalin wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Ministers of 10 non-Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled States expressing concern over the terms of reference for the 15th Finance Commission. The Centre’s direction to us...

💥Indian authorities may now have the opportunity to directly access data stored on U.S. servers Consider a scenario where a crime is committed in India and the suspect and victim are both Indian citizens. If the suspect used a U.S.-based messaging service to plan the crime, an Indian officer investigating would have to raise a request for data to the U.S. government where it is stored. Two weeks ago, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act), which will enable the U.S. government to enter into agreements with like-minded states for cross-border data sharing. This will allow law enforcement agencies from these states to directly obtain electronic data, held by communication service providers headquartered in the U.S., to combat crime. New Delhi, on the back of this development, will soon push for an India-U.S. data sharing agreement to serve the interests of its law enforcement and, more importantly, to make headway in t...

💥How the problem of Kashmir came to be Kashmir is not one but two problems. There is the problem of Kashmir between India and Pakistan and the problem in Kashmir between the people and the Central government. The first is based on Pakistan’s challenge to the legality of the State’s accession to India; the second on the disaffection of the State’s population that has created a problem of legitimacy for the Indian Union. If the political elites had the sagacity to solve or at least manage the problem ‘in’ Kashmir, the problem ‘of’ Kashmir would have lost its salience over time. Unfortunately, they did exactly the reverse. It was essential that Kashmir’s special status be recognised in the Constitution because of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding its accession and because it defied the communal logic on which Partition was based. Unfortunately, Hindu communal forces, led by the Jan Sangh, began agitating from 1950 for the removal of Article 370. This had a major...