Ashok Sajjanhar
Ashok Sajjanhar was the Ambassador of India to Kazakhstan, Sweden and Latvia, and has worked in diplomatic positions in Washington DC, Brussels, Moscow, Geneva, Tehran, Dhaka and Bangkok. He has worked as the head of National Foundation for Communal Harmony, Government of India. He is currently the President of Institute of Global Studies in New Delhi and Executive Council Member, Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.
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PM Modi in USA: On the Trajectory of ‘’A MEGA Partnership for Prosperity’’
Introduction Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Washington DC at the invitation of US President Donald Trump on 12-13 February, 2025. The visit took place within four weeks of the assumption of Office by President Trump in his Second Term. The first few months after the Inauguration of a US Pre
India-US Ties in Trump 2.0: On a ‘’Bigger, Bolder and More Ambitious’’ Trajectory
India-US relations have been in a sweet spot since the last twenty-five years starting with the visit of US President Bill Clinton to India in March 2000. There has been a bipartisan consensus in both India and the US regarding stronger and more dynamic ties between the two nations. There was con
THE FUTURE OF QUAD IN TRUMP 2.0
Introduction The first Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or QUAD Meetings of the Trump Administration was held between the foreign ministers of the four member countries viz. Australia, India, Japan and USA, on January 21, 2025, one day after the inauguration of President Trump as the 47th Presiden
INDIA’S FOREIGN POLICY IN 2024: MANY SUCCESSES, A FEW HICCUPS
Introduction 2024 has been a tumultuous year. Many totally unanticipated events took place during the year. Wars that started some time ago have continued unabated. 2024 was also a year of elections in which more than 60 countries went to the polls. Several of them threw up unexpected results. Ma
India-Bangladesh Ties – The Way Forward
More than four months have elapsed since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee from Dhaka to India on August 5, 2024. She had to take this precipitous step in the face of rising student protests which had become increasingly violent over the previous month. Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunu
WILL TRUMP 2.0 PROVE TO BE THE TRUMP CARD FOR INDIA AND THE WORLD
Curtains came down on more than a yearlong intense campaigning in the US Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats at the end of voting hours in Alaska, the western most state of the US, on November 5, 2024. The contest was expected to have a nail-biting finish. It did not. It was thought