US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, in an interview during her India visit, discussed US-India intelligence sharing, trade relations, and countering terrorism. She emphasized the Trump administration's commitment to defeating Islamist terrorism and strengthening US-India partnership. Gabbard also addressed recent controversies in US intelligence and spoke about her Hindu faith's role in her career. [...]
Tulsi Gabbard has kept a cool head, enunciating a diplomatically balanced view of the importance of her role: "Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding of America." One thing is certain: her election has electrified the estimated [...]
The Left uses colonial constructs in its seeming 'progressive' and liberationist view of humanity. Therefore Hinduism is evil because of caste system, superstition, and India's poverty. The Right it must be remembered has been the traditional haunt of those who espouse racism, xenophobia, imperial glories, values of Little England, the sanctity of the British Empire, [...]
Since the attacks of 9/11 we have been told that there is a war on terror. But India was suffering such terrorism long before this yet the rest of the world averted its gaze. In fact it is a sad indictment of the self-appointed leaders of the Free World, Britain and America, that they would [...]
January 9, 2014
Ranbir Singh
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