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My war, your bill: White House Pres Secretary Karoline Leavitt says President Donald Trump is "quite interested" in asking Arab nations to pay for the US-Iran war. "It’s an idea that I know that he has, and something that I think you’ll hear more from him on," she says.

The women of India and Pakistan need to deploy our ingrained common sense and suggest ways forward in our relationship. We need a women’s caucus. Not to throw accusations against each other but to think calmly and sensibly about the future ahead. For the sake of our children. We need to bring in the counterpoint: without naming it, without sounding defensive, but making it impossible to dismiss. For decades, India–Pakistan engagement has been trapped in a single script: territory, terror, recrimination. We repeat it with ritual precision, but it yields diminishing returns. What if we widened the frame? In West Asia, especially the Gulf, our interests often run in parallel: energy security, diaspora welfare, maritime stability, crisis response. These are not abstractions since they affect millions of lives and the resilience of both economies. Engaging here need not dilute our positions, create false parity, or reopen familiar disputes. It can remain tightly bounded, issue-specific, and without prejudice to core differences. Skeptics will argue that Pakistan cannot compartmentalise, that any engagement risks being instrumentalised, and that peripheral cooperation has never altered core hostility. But the purpose here is not transformation, it is insulation. Not to resolve the conflict by other means, but to prevent it from defining all means. Some may also say Pakistan has found a “role” in the Iran crisis and India should not be seen as seeking one. But this is not about visibility or mediation. Our interests are structural not transitory. If anything, the moment underscores a larger truth: even adversarial states operate beyond their disputes when interests demand it. When the central track is blocked, responsible statecraft does not stand still. It explores parallel ones, carefully, deliberately, and on its own terms. Sometimes, widening the field is not weakness. It is strategy. The women must speak.

Shahrukh Khan in Main Hoon Na (2004) -People hating Pakistan will destroy India -Revenge on Pakistan for killing 1000s of Indians is hate Bollywood brainwashed public to such extent, Dhurandhar showing Pakistan’s reality is seen as propaganda

My experiences with NRIs & urban India basically confirms that Hinglish is the Lingua Franca of India's future. In parallel, I've noticed English is cannibalizing EVERY regional language. Even when I watch speeches of Southern politicians, they can't speak a full sentence in their local tongue half the time. Among the YUTES, English is no more a sprinkle over vernacular but a heavy pour. Makes all this language parochialism even more dumb as these cowards only go for the easy target of migrant Hindi-speakers, all the while their vernaculars become more pidgin-like mating with English.

Is there anything worse than a crying baby on a plane? I wish parents would control their children. It’s so disruptive. I refuse to believe a baby cries for 10 hours. At some point this is just bad parenting, right?

Here’s the truth: Most Indians aren’t against Christianity itself — we don’t care what you believe. What bothers us is the aggression: calling our gods “false,” “demonic,” or “fake,” and insisting only your God is true. If that’s your faith, fine. But why push us to convert because you think ours is wrong? Why the endless “save us” mission? We’re not asking to be saved. It feels disrespectful — like I’m treated as sub-human or incomplete until I join your religion. That’s not equality; it’s conditional respect. Conversions in India often look like a funded racket with overseas money, copying Hindu rituals/attire/festivals just to swap in Jesus. That’s appropriation, not conversion. We’re happy as we are. Our 5,000+ year civilisation survived invasions and forced changes — we follow what our ancestors did for millennia and have no desire to abandon it.

🚨An Israeli official told ne the mediating countries were trying to convene a meeting in Islamabad — with Ghalibaf and other officials representing Tehran, and Witkoff, Kushner and possibly Vice President Vance representing the U.S. - possibly later this week

"India has replaced China as the largest manufacturer of smartphones for the US in just four years. The latest iPhone in your pocket was made in India. They are doing the kind of high-precision manufacturing that people said only China could do," says Fareed Zakaria

All the worst things people say about India is also true about Mexico. There’s no real difference between either country

Someone who calls Ajmal Kasab a “gentleman” can never be the king of the Indian film industry.