India, March 8 -- DOGE's dismantling of the American State has significant costs for the US and will resonate beyond national borders. India too should brace for the impact

Donald Trump has been president for scarcely one month, but one can be excused for feeling as if it's been a year - or even a lifetime. The deluge from Washington has been fast and furious. On foreign policy, Trump has signalled a new era of American "manifest destiny", in which territorial expansion is the ultimate objective. Economically, Trump 2.0 has transformed America's growing nativist inclinations into a national obsession. And on the domestic front, Trump has sought to redefine birthright citizenship, declare English as the country's official language, and el...