US-India Tariff Announcement: When Trump Talks and Rahul Shouts, Facts Sit Quietly in the Corner
Whenever Rahul Gandhi raises his voice on an international issue, I am reminded of a childhood scene from my neighbourhood—a boy who would shout “out, out” without even seeing the ball. The noise was loud enough to stop the game, though no one bothered to check what the rules actually said. The same kind of noise now surrounds the India–US trade deal. Farmers have been betrayed, workers have been sold out—this claim is being repeated so often that some have begun to accept it as truth. What disappoints me more is that even today, educated and sensible people are willing to take Rahul Gandhi seriously. Let me be clear. I am not peddling a conspiracy theory, nor am I indulging in emotional theatrics. I am placing facts on the table—plain, cold facts. And the fact is that the chief architect of this confusion is neither India nor Rahul Gandhi, but Donald Trump. The same Trump who claims, with equal confidence, to have stopped an India–Pakistan war and keeps changing the count of fighter j...
