India, March 12 -- I am writing this column on a Friday. Exactly a week ago, around this time, a slanging match took place in the Oval Office in full view of the media. As people all over watched the drama unfold, I shook with vicarious consternation when a war-time leader was psychologically conquered by two men who are the powers that be of the Western world. It was a scene that felt unsettlingly familiar, not just as a geopolitical showdown, but as a stark example of the pressures we all face in the presence of unchecked authority. President Trump set an uneasy tone to the meeting right from the word go when he made a stinging remark about President Zelensky's attire as soon they met. Although it was made to sound casual, the dig was fro...