Important by Kapil Komireddi on how Trump's ego needs and tariff stupidity blew up the US-India partnership so painstakingly cultivated by predecessors Clinton, Bush, Obama. nytimes.com/2025/08/31/opi…

I am waiting for all those Indian Americans who voted for Trump over Harris --you know who you are --to speak out against Trump sabotaging the partnership with blanket tariffs that are harsher than those on China. Anyone willing to speak up?

These risible sycophants did the same thing with Trump. Now that Trump has micturated all over Modi, they’re spotlighting President Putin. India will pay—is paying—a colossal cost on so many fronts for the prime minister’s personality cult.

Good to see my oped on the deteriorating US-India relationship on the front page of The New York Times

Pity the toadies who wrote all those semiliterate puff pieces exalting Modi as a genius for flying to China. Now they must advance fresh rationalisations for Modi’s obsequious tweet directed at Trump. In India there is no policy. There is only a personality cult.

Senior journalist and editor of The Telegraph newspaper, Sankarshan Thakur passed away today. He was 63. We’ve lost a fearless voice in journalism. His sharp political analysis and unwavering commitment to the truth will be deeply missed. In this time of sorrow, the Press

Contrary to the claims pushed by the millennial vanguard of the recent violent uprising, Nepal was not a failed nation. Despite the awfulness of its political class, the country had made extraordinary strides over the past quarter century. My essay newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

The best piece I have read in the western press so far on Nepal gen z revolution. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

“A new group of Nepalis now have power. How will they use it?” Kapil Komireddi writes. “The last generation of revolutionaries was corrupted by the system. Will the new brokers and wielders of power be more prudent and restrained?” nyer.cm/6Sqs5Lt

Nepal is not only the oldest sovereign state in South Asia. It's also one of the most successful. Outsiders who rationalise the violence there—who cast it as revolutionary enactment of justice—do tremendous disservice to its people. Me in the The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

Violence erupts in Ladakh (yes, Ladakh) as protestors storm BJP office. Unprecedented scenes from the region bordering China, which has rarely witnessed a protest of this kind.

The revolution in Nepal: a vivid and insightful analysis by Kapil Komireddi newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

Officials accusing Sonam Wangchuk of being a Pakistani agent know it’s a lie. The monkeys amplifying it on television know it’s a lie. Ordinary Indians know it’s a lie. Yet this lie is being used to destroy a man's life. We'd call this surreal if it wasn't our actual reality.

Voting underway in the Czech parliamentary elections.

Taliban’s foreign minister has done more press conferences on Indian soil than the prime minister of the world’s largest democracy.

"Belgrade is a city of layers, a palimpsest of vanished empires, socialist utopias, and a ferocious 21st-century ambition." Me in The Telegraph on the great Balkan metropolis that not so long ago was the non-aligned world's European capital. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/1…

"The greater danger for liberal Europe is not the strength of 'populist' movements: it is the weakness of those who define themselves against them" Me in @UnHerd from Prague unherd.com/2025/10/will-e…

Andrej Babiš is an anythingarian — a highly adaptable billionaire and flexible politician. But is he a populist? Kapil Komireddi isn’t sure 👇 buff.ly/IWBNlEa

What is denounced as ‘populism’ is not so much a cogent creed as a verdict on the emptiness of the centre. There’s a lesson there, if Europe’s liberals choose to learn it. Kapil Komireddi👇 buff.ly/IWBNlEa