Opinion
Local netas take over UN
The UN was built to stop the next big war, but it saw annihilation threats and blasting devices. Trump, Netanyahu and Milei used a global stage for local Reel-centric politics.

Kamlesh (Kishore) Singh is News Director at India Today Group Digital, and one of India's more reliably unreliable opinion columnists. He is also a regular calumnist. Three decades in newsrooms carried him through the Asian Age, Today, CNN-IBN, Metro Now, and Dainik Bhaskar before this current innings, teaching him everything an editor needs to know, including when to break the rules. Off the desk, he moonlights as Tau on Aaj Tak Radio's weekly podcast Teen Taal, and keeps his satire for India Today's opinion pages.
The UN was built to stop the next big war, but it saw annihilation threats and blasting devices. Trump, Netanyahu and Milei used a global stage for local Reel-centric politics.
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