Megha gupta biography of barack obama

By Srimal Fernando and Megha Gupta

The U.S. foreign policy has led to a relatively prolonged stretch of international engagements with the South Asian nations. In the recent years, the new U.S. foreign policy towards South Asia has ushered a change, describing Asia as “Indo-Pacific” instead of “Asia Pacific”. This change has been introduced to increase the connectedness between the two continents Asia and Africa further with the littoral states along the Pacific Ocean. The U.S. foreign policy expectations from the South Asian countries comprises of increased leadership and management as well as the establishment of rule of law and free market economy in the region.

The U.S. diplomacy with the Indian subcontinent and its neighbors over the last seven decades has changed considerably. This nature of involvement of the U.S. with the South Asian nations has varied with time as the U.S. national interest has gone through different stages of evolution. It has been over a year since the President Donald Trump has taken the office and his Foreign Policy goals aim at prioritizing the American Security Interests globally under the “America First Policy”. In a speech at the United Nations, President Trump had further backed this claim by stating “As long as I hold this office, I will defend America’s interests above all else.”

The current administration’s stance with regard to Afghanistan and few other South Asian nations has not been very different from the previous administration. Even though in the election campaign, President Trump was a critic of the war in Afghanistan, but under the new foreign policy the U.S. interests in Afghanistan has been extended as a long term strategy. This interest is not only limited to the security aspect of the South Asian region but it rather also extends to the economic aspect to cover Central Asia because of the rich minerals, oil and other resources available in this region. Within this subcontinent, the President Trump like the f

Part II of The Trouble with Kamala:  Identity and the Death of Politics

Those who do not recognize the manner in which identity politics dominates nearly all conversation in America understand little if anything of America.  What the nomination of Kamala Devi Harris by the Democratic party to the Vice-Presidency of the US signifies is not so much the fact that women have finally arrived on the political scene, or are on the verge of breaking the glass ceiling that has held them back, an argument that was advanced when Hillary Clinton became the party’s nominee for the President, but rather the sheer impossibility of escaping the identity question in American public life.  Let us consider her, in the first instance, as an African American as Harris has herself weighed in on these matters often, describing herself as a Black on most occasions and adverting to her pride in being African American. Her 2019 autobiography, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey is explicit on one particular detail that merits some consideration.  Her parents separated when she was around five years old, and they divorced a few years later; but her mother, who had come from India as a graduate student, was not therefore bereft of a family. Kamala’s parents had a shared political life for some years:  they participated in political demonstrations against racism, discrimination, and injustice, discussed decolonization in Africa, and declared their support for liberation movements in ‘the developing world’.  These dissenters and rebels became, Harris writes, “my mother’s people.  In a country where she had no family, they were her family—and she was theirs.  From almost the moment she arrived from India, she chose and was welcomed to and enveloped in the black community.  It was the foundation of her new American life.”  In consequence, Shyamala Gopalan raised her daughters, Kamala and Maya, as black children:  “She knew that her adopted homelan