As Donald Trump returns to power in the US after a thumping win, Modi gains an ally, but India faces economic and diplomatic risks.
The fears have come true. Over the past few weeks, a section of the populace in the US has been gripped by apprehensions that Donald Trump will be back as president. And back he is after a win in an election that was nowhere as close as was forecast by various pollsters.
Soon after midnight on Tuesday, it was clear that vice-president Kamala Harris had lost the election, making her the second woman to lose to Trump. The biggest shocker was that in addition to America’s electoral college, Trump even won the popular vote, which rankles and bewilders most of my …
Sushant Singh is a lecturer at Yale University. Previously, he was a senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, and deputy editor of The Indian Express. A winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, he had earlier served in the Indian Army for two decades. He is also the author of Mission Overseas and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story.
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