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...pomp and ceremony with which President Barack Obama will host India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a White House state dinner on Tuesday won't alter a perception in India that it has lost ground to China in the new Administration's Asia policy. Many in New Delhi saw Obama's performance last week in Beijing as acquiescent toward an emboldened Beijing, New Delhi's longtime regional rival. And they see India having a diminished role in the economic and geopolitical calculations of Obama's White House - at least in comparison to the centrality it enjoyed in the Bush...
...They may have winced at his blunders in Iraq and elsewhere, but many Indians welcomed President Bush's embrace, which strengthened ties between the world's largest democracies to an unprecedented degree after decades of Cold War estrangement. Singh faced opposition at home from parties skeptical of close ties with the U.S., but staked his political reputation on the growing relationship - his government was almost deposed by parties of the left protesting a nuclear-technology deal he concluded with the Bush Administration. (See pictures of Barack Obama visiting Asia...
...Part of the price for that new reality, many in India believe, is a downgrading of their own concerns. Singh will be in the U.S. on the anniversary of last year's Mumbai terror attacks, which were orchestrated by Pakistan-based groups with traditional ties to Pakistan's military intelligence organization, the ISI. But while Obama and his Afghanistan envoy, Richard Holbrooke, have urged India to make concessions on the decades-old Kashmir dispute in order to help Washington's efforts to persuade the Pakistanis to focus more resources on fighting the Taliban, little has been done to coerce Pakistan...
...response to last week’s disputed election results, 2013-ers Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, Izzy Link-Levy, Felix de Rosen, Richard Huang, Billy Gorman, and Benjamin Cohen issued a statement establishing the Weld Thirty-Four (WTF) Republic and encouraging “all to throw off the chains of oppression and join us in our crusade for justice.” This call to arms comes with a new agenda and a new vision for all of Harvard University...
...interview with FlyBy, “Benevolent Leader” Jeanine Sinanan-Singh said, “I think our call to action represents the general Harvard community attitude that the UC is unimportant and the latest election issues really confirms our problems with them...