ThePrintAM: What’s the controversy over Ajit Pawar ‘reprimanding’ an IPS officer?

Regime change can always be a democratic aspiration. But it will take more to achieve it than a few days of protests, riots and arson. What the collapse in Kathmandu with just one push underlines to us is that it was a non-functional state. It had an elected government, but its leaders did not have the first prerequisite for governance: democratic patience. Could this happen in India? A regime change through any “tool kit”? A quick way to explain why it can’t happen is to remind ourselves that constitutional democracies do not have a ‘regime.’ Read this weeks National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/gen-z-nepal-bangladesh-sri-lanka-pakistan-india/2742136/

https://theprint.in/diplomacy/gen-z-gets-its-way-nepals-1st-woman-chief-justice-sushila-karki-takes-over-as-interim-govt-head/2742176/

US President Donald Trump's nominee for US Envoy to India, Sergio Gor explained his views on Washington's ties with New Delhi. He said that India’s protectionist policies and regulatory barriers have prevented both countries from fully realizing the partnership. Soviet-born, 38-year-old Sergio Gor, who is the head of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, would be the youngest US Ambassador to India. #CutTheClutter Episode 1730 looks at Sergio Gor's political journey and what makes him vital as well as powerful in the Trump White House. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief Shekhar Gupta also details his views on India, and proximity to both US President Donald Trump, as well as his son Trump Jr.----more---- Watch Sergio Gor's Senate Confirmation Hearing (Full): https://youtu.be/yAv2vzGmv8I

CutTheCLutter: Understanding Nepal crisis & some myth-busting: Monarchy, Hinduism, democracy and anarchy

CutTheClutter: NATO forces shoot down Russian drones over Poland:Unpacking consequences,geopolitics & Warsaw's rise

Less than two years after independence, India found itself battered by Maoist insurgents in Telegana and growing chaos along its borders with Tibet. Even as Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru publicly advocated for staying out of Cold War politics, India’s first intelligence chief, TG Sanjeevi Pillai, was quietly despatched to Washington to expand intelligence cooperation. The pillars built in that time have helped hold up the US-India relationship, and could prove critical again.

CutTheClutter: Nepal PM out, Army in:Lifting layers of Gen Z anger triggered by social media ban & complex politics

What may be upsetting for BJP leaders and the rank and file is how the high command does not seem to consider them stakeholders in the presidential election, ThePrint Political Editor DK Singh elaborates in this episode of #PoliticallyCorrect