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Edits | June, 2025
After all the mayhem that the Trump administration has levelled out to the students community all over the world, one needs to think about how the blocking of international student admissions have actually come about. In a subsequent decision after blocking new student admissions and putting the existing ones in a corner (who are not from STEM),came a decision to impose a 3.5% remittance tax.
It appears that Trump has understood that first, they educate students from the third world, make them employable in the US, devouring the jobs of Americans, and then these very students who have now become businessmen or professionals are sending money back to their country. Hence, it is not just a decision by the Trump administration to block international students but it is also to contain the flight of wealth, in which the American capital is so much sunk in.
Besides the capital, there is a lot of intelligence and knowledge that is imported when a student comes to the US, which is beyond money, and Trump’s realisation of this seems to have led to a decision that the US varsities should not educate other students in US campuses.
The final realisation on both the sides of the US administration and with the students will take up to six months to crystallise. At the moment, things are just too heated for anybody to make sense of it. While universities have lost their fee money from the international students , the amount of free work that they could get out of these aspiring US citizens remains unquantified. It is hoped that the Trump administration realises the intelligent international students they will lose out on, especially in theory and hard work, which seldom is done by US students.
Anti-Semitism may be cited as one cause for stopping admissions, while another may be that there is enough money in the university treasuries (endowments from the US citizens). Both these positions have existed since time immemorial, but they have never been questioned. The US has, at many times, used student leaders to wage propaganda war against regimes all over the world. Does the US now want to end that? This does not seem likely, since a lot of it depends on the propaganda America creates before it enters any region.
Young students who are intelligent and go for studies to the US universities, are the genesis of all development in America, and consequently the world. They are the people who drive the technology business which America is all about. The Trump administration cannot take a decision arbitrarily to block this brainware which actually fuels the world. Students in any community need to be looked beyond being simply citizens since they are International citizens and it would be unwise to view students as captors of an economy or of a country.
If these universities are left only with the Americans to educate, the development in science technology, thinking, theoretical Physics and the LHC will actually be severely compromised. Surely with that in view, things for the incoming students in the US universities may be a lot different 4 to 6 months from now, when the tariff, remittance, taxes war along with the money games that Trump administration has announced settles down. All in all the move against new admissions cannot be looked at in isolation, which it is being deemed to be presented as.
Indo Pak war 2025. The Indians definitely have culled the Pakistanis and their allies to such an extent that they had to come out with a white flag from the mountains where the nukes were stored. As is classically said, sometimes you need a war to bring out the best in people. This is one such war.
The extent of hit by Indian forces has been so penetrating that it has not only uprooted the Pakistanis but also their allies. The display of technology between man and machine surpasses anything witnessed during the Congress regime. As the general public, we had always thought that the Indian Army and the forces were entirely dependent on foreign imports, but that seems not to be the case anymore.
The Indian war technology, its missiles and its equipment has really made a big noise all over the world. It seems that DRDO and HAL were pretty much incapacitated due to the earlier bureaucratic regime. The Modi government seems to have given them an edge, very silently. Such would not have ever been displayed had we not experienced a real full-scale war.
It is good that the government decided, against all odds and without sentimental baggage of 2019, to go and hit Pakistan where it hurts. Politically speaking, there could not have been a compelling scenario in whichIndia may have wanted a temporary ceasefire. It surely must have come from the Pak side. Even considering the political history of the BJP and that of Modi, there have been many occasions where politically he has been challenged, but still he has gone ahead to disarm the enemy. The same tactics seem to have played out here in this war board. Hence, it can be safely concluded that the ceasefire must have come from the Pak side through their DGMO, who must have realised that they were staring at the end of the tunnel- their nuclear tunnel. But who knows?
We, as citizens, should now feel proud and more protected in the hands of indigenous technology, which has been so vehemently displayed, against the best of warning systems – the F-16s, missile downing tech, drones from Turkey and the US, etc. Even if India lost some airplanes, that is the normal course of war. Do consider that we did not have a weak enemy, since they are people of the same origin. They are well-trained and intelligent in the areas of warfare since they have been at it much longer than the post-partition India.
There are many versions of the war’s events in the traditional and social media, with dispatches and satellite footage from the army, that show the scale of destruction levelled on Pakistani installations. However, there is no plausible evidence of any significant counterattack on the Indian side. Hence, it can be concluded that the Indians did destroy a lot of Pakistani stuff.
Considering that the funding for terror will no longer be easily available with so much being exposed (and destroyed), and with the continuing Indian diplomacy, this is one post-war scenario which will be in play for a long time. The next move by the Pak terror camps will definitely come, as they too need to establish their position, and it is most likely that Pakistan will again miscalculate what India can do. Better they miscalculate.
CA Divesh Nath
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Woman’s Era
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