India, Aug. 23 -- Given the power of the US Presidency over that country and thereby the world, the inexplicable actions of President Trump have brought in a maelstrom of uncertainty concerning relations with the largest economy in the world. Among his steps was a clampdown on several of the freedoms US citizens had earlier taken for granted.

When Albert Einstein sailed from a Nazifying Germany to Britain, he pointed out that innovation and accretion to knowledge can only take place in a society where ceaseless enquiry and tolerance towards multiple views manifest. A society controlled from the top and sought to be made monochromatic in thought would witness the perishing of the dynamic essential for long-term progress.

And so it proved...