Gautam Das

The book provides an overview of the practical realities of military operations on India’s northern and north-western frontiers with China and Pakistan, and a focused discussion on the organisational requirements for an offensive doctrine in the mountains, as required for India’s new Mountain Strike Corps. It is written as ‘a discussion on mountain warfare in the Indian context.

Shailaja Fennell

The speaker examined  the current understanding of Smart Cities and the implication of employment and inclusion. The focus was on how youth challenges in the areas of skills and employment can be addressed through the lens of sustainability in China and India.

Ashok K. Kantha

Public Lecture on BRI/Asia as a part of the IHC-SPS Changing Asia Series.

Amitabh Mathur

China is known to have promoted sectarian schisms within Tibetan Buddhism.China’s strategic objectives to appropriate leadership of the Buddhist world and dictate the Buddhist narrative poses a challenge to India. The presentation will look at the implications of China’s Buddhist outreach policy on India and deliberate on the possible ways to counter such a policy.

Hemant Adlakha

The talk presented a brief overview of the ‘quiet revolution’ in Chinese diplomacy since the 18th Party Congress. This was followed by a quick glance at recent Chinese observations and media commentaries regarding India, not Japan, being a bigger threat to China in the future.

Debasish Chaudhuri

The book focuses on the nature of ethno-national conflicts and impacts of ideological orientation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) towards the national question in the context of Han nationalism and political, economic and security policies towards Xinjiang. Violence in Xinjiang since the mid-1990s is projected as one of the major national security challenges for China, along with issues pertaining to Tibet and Taiwan.