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Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.
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Obama spent three days in India and skipped Pakistan. Islamabad's aggrieved reaction was equal parts theatre and genuine insecurity.

In India for Bigg Boss 4, Pamela Anderson wrote to PM Manmohan Singh calling on Indians to reject all leather products and end animal suffering.

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.
On 11/11 — four singles — China celebrates singlehood with self-gifting. How Alibaba turned a joke holiday into a retail juggernaut.

Article 370, AFSPA, and decades of military presence: what ordinary Kashmiris want is not complicated. Getting there is.
While Obama toured Asia, David Cameron raced to China with Britain's largest-ever business delegation. The great powers were all courting the same customer.

Fresh off his midterm 'shellacking,' Obama landed in Mumbai in November 2010 — selling India to American business, and American business to himself.
On November 2, 2010, Nikki Haley became the first Indian American governor in US history. What her South Carolina win meant — and didn't.
In 2010 two driverless vans drove 13,000 km from Italy to China. Nobody paid much attention then. The future of the automobile was already on the road.
When India's tennis star married Pakistan's cricket star Shoaib Malik in April 2010, nationalists on both sides fumed — but the real story was simpler and
Does Barack Obama feel the economic pain of ordinary Americans? An editorial look at the empathy gap between his rhetoric and lived reality in 2010.