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2 weeks ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
One of the revelations of this young Trump term has been the embarrassing servility of America’s European allies. It has fallen to China by a kind of default to restore geopolitical equilibrium Mukul Kesavan Published 06.04.25, 06:35 AM Donald Trump and Xi Jinping Sourced by the Telegraph The economically illiterate reader (like me) browsing the headlines about Donald Trump’s tariffs looks to borrow the opinions of his betters.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
If international cricket comes to be seen as BCCI’s rotten borough, it will lose its credibility and with it, its precarious hold on the public imagination.
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1 month ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
It’s hard to believe that making subordinate allies and clients like Britain, France and Ukraine tiptoe performatively around an unpredictable president is a winning global strategy for the US Mukul Kesavan Published 02.03.25, 07:23 AM Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance at the White House.
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2 months ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Noting the congruence between MAGA’s world view and that of Europe’s neo-fascist Right, it would be a mistake to think that Europe’s Centrist establishment is fire-walled against far-Right politics Mukul Kesavan Published 23.02.25, 07:28 AM Simon Schama and Donald Trump: Shared stripes Sourced by The Telegraph Jaded veterans of peace negotiations have cynically observed that if you aren’t at the table, you’re on the menu.
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2 months ago | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
It’s hard to accept that a dispositive majority of Americans love Trump and revel in his bigotry. To say that would amount to saying that the ground out of which American democracy grows is poisoned Mukul Kesavan Published 09.02.25, 07:15 AM U.S President Donald Trump welcomes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the entrance of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 4, 2025.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Trump’s ascension is as important for what it makes visible as it is for what he might do as president. It has been obvious that countries of the Anglosphere surf the world using America’s sinews Mukul Kesavan Published 19.01.25, 08:54 AM Donald Trump. File picture Donald Trump’s election is the gift that keeps on giving for those of us who live elsewhere.
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Dec 25, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Vaishna Roy |Aijaz Ahmad |A.G. Noorani |Mukul Kesavan
Indian politics over the past decade makes the case for a revisionist history of the republic. The success of the Sangh Parivar in imposing a communal common sense on Indian politics should encourage us to review India’s republican past in the light of Narendra Modi’s ascendancy. We should ask why our democracy, built on the simple majorities of a first-past-the-post system, took so long to become majoritarian.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
As cricket’s economy shifted decisively towards India, playing India at Test cricket has become lucrative for other cricketing nations and BCCI has been wooed with frequent series against Australia Mukul Kesavan Published 08.12.24, 05:01 AM At the end of the first Test in Perth, a journalist asked if the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was now the greatest bilateral contest in the long-form game.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Trump’s orange, lewdly playful face now fills our screens as Biden’s frail (but respectable) visage recedes. Not forever; there will always be a Jekyll impersonator in America’s political repertory Mukul Kesavan Published 17.11.24, 08:53 AM Donald Trump Sourced by the Telegraph Donald Trump’s triumph doesn’t show us a ‘polarised’ America. This lazy metaphor for division obscures America’s shapeshifting oneness.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Mukul Kesavan
Watching India lose the second Test and the three-match series to New Zealand, I was surprised by my equanimity. I’ve felt more depressed after Arsenal defeats. Not only is North London not my watan, I only began following the Premier League seriously some twenty years ago. I’ve been tracking India’s Test sides for sixty years now, beginning with the 1964 home series against M.J.K. Smith’s team.
