With fresh disclosures revealing multiple email exchanges and meetings between Hardeep Singh Puri and Jeffrey Epstein, the earlier dismissal of it all as “mere name-dropping” now looks harder to sustain. While Puri insists the interactions were limited, professional, and focused on pitching India’s digital potential before he joined the government, the optics raise uncomfortable questions. In an era where political accountability is loudly demanded from opponents, should proximity to controversial power brokers be judged only by legality, or also by judgement and transparency ? And does this episode expose a double standard in how political associations are explained away depending on who is involved ?

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