Research Associate - Europe @CSDR_India | Europe 🇪🇺 🇮🇳 | Intersections of Indian Foreign and Domestic policy | Occasional ventures into Cinema 📽️🌍🌴
New Delhi, India
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As India okays Germany's bid for the #P75I submarine deal, I write for @CEIAS_eu on "The Renewed Strategic Promise of the 🇮🇳-🇩🇪 Relationship"
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I teared up watching this. I’ll never be half the man he is. I’ll never have the courage to face the police and risk getting arrested. I’ll never have the courage to travel 1000 kms with nothing except a bit of Chana and Achaar. Hats off to the courageous youth like him.
What a Beautiful Expose this is! ♥️
Salute to this guy. 🫡
Thank You to the Interviewer for bringing this to to us so beautifully.
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Delighted to partner with @funalternativas for an event on “India, Spain and the EU: the New Geopolitics”, with support from the @ICNuevaDelhi &
@EmbEspIndia
Experts from 🇮🇳 & 🇪🇸explored the evolving contours of India–Spain relations, especially on defense-industrial collaboration & partnerships in cutting-edge technologies.
@HappymonJacob @rakeshnms @SanjayVermalFS @Vpalacio22 @amaiasc4 @d_makkat
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mind truly blown today that the words namaste (नमस्ते) and namaz (نماز) are related.
Arabic صَلَاة (ṣalāh) for prayer is cognate with Syriac (Aramaic) word for prayer ܨܠܘܬܐ (ṣlūṯā). Persian word for prayer namaz is cognate with Hindi word namaste, derived from Sanskrit namaha (bowing down). Languages connect us all.
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🔴 TODAY (March 19) | 14:00 IST / 09:30 CET ⏰
As the Iran war continues, with serious implications for the region, what does it mean for India, Europe, and their engagement?
📍 Online via Zoom
🔗 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
with @HappymonJacob, @BaukeBaumann, Gaddam Dharmendra
🚨Webinar Alert 🚨
@CSDR_India, in collaboration with @boell_India, invites you to a webinar on “India–Europe Perspectives on the Iran War” with @HappymonJacob @dhamugaddam & @BaukeBaumann
🗓️ 19 March 2026
🕒 14:00 hrs (IST), 09:30 hrs (CET)
🔗 Register Now: tinyurl.com/3wvdkfr6
💡We are discussing the evolving dynamics of the Iran war, its economic, energy, and security implications for India and Europe 🌏
#India #Europe #Iran
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🚨Starting soon!!
📢Join us for this timely discussion
🕑2:00 PM
🔗Register here: tinyurl.com/m734r8pm
@boell_India
#IndiaEUTradeDeal #IndiaEUFTA #IndiaEUSummit #IndiaEU
🚨 Webinar Alert 🚨
@CSDR_India, in collaboration with @boell_India, invites you to a webinar as part of the Policy Brief Series on India-Europe Relations
“EU-India Summit 2026: Outcomes, Gaps, and the Road Ahead”
🗓 29 January 2026
🕑14:00 IST | 09:30 CET
🔗Register Now: tinyurl.com/m734r8pm
Join us as we discuss the strategic intent, policy trade-offs, and longer-term implications for 🇮🇳-🇪🇺 relations across economic, technological, and security domains
@HappymonJacob @ManishaReuter @kathuria_rajat @suhasinih @MohanCRaja @LtGenHooda
#IndiaEU #IndEUFTA
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An important assessment of the EU–India partnership and what drives it by @MohanCRaja and @d_makkat.
It'll be interesting to see how far this 'pragmatic and realistic readjustment' in the India-EU cooperation shapes the India-EU FTA.
🚨New Report!🚨with @boell_India
The EU and India: Inevitable Partners for a Rules-Based International Order
@MohanCRaja Dr. Tobias Scholz & @d_makkat argue that 🇮🇳and 🇪🇺 can leverage their shared commitment to rules-based multilateralism to drive targeted global reforms—strengthening the WTO, advancing UNSC reform, shaping digital standards, and boosting green-transition finance—to co-shape a resilient international order amid rising great-power rivalry.
Read here - tinyurl.com/5cbdhtc7
@HappymonJacob @rakeshnms
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🚨🚨 Our 2025 Impact Report is out.🚨🚨
In a year of profound geopolitical disruption, CSDR advanced rigorous, policy-relevant research to support informed decision-making in India and among like-minded partners.
Gratitude to all our partners, stakeholders, and experts in India and around the world, for engaging with us.
🔗tinyurl.com/385s77bs
@HappymonJacob @LtGenHooda @rakeshnms @Harpoonleader @MohanCRaja @rivagdas @ashokkkantha @Ajaybis @Harpoonleader @shivsahai @jabinjacobt @Kim_HDarragh @DebakD @dperi84 @BashirAliAbbas @AmenNaithani @HelyD25 @ankit
@Tishya_Khillare @SidharthRaimed1 @Ankit__T @shashank_zip @Gaurav_SNI @d_makkat @ZWattal @TorunikaR @auro508 @akanksha_b10
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🚨Webinar Alert🚨
@CSDR_India in collaboration with @boell_India, invites you to the the next webinar of our policy brief series India-Europe Relations: Advancing Policy Alignment
We are discussing "The EU and India: Inevitable Partners for a Rules-Based International Order" with @MohanCRaja @AmritaNarlikar Dr. Pradnya Bivalkar & Dr. Tobias Scholz
🗓️ 24 Nov 2025
🕒 03:00 PM IST
🔗 Register Now: tinyurl.com/yvjrd927
#India #Europe
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🌟 News from Brussels coming with the Diwali spirit 🪔! EU 27 Member States unanimous in support of a new 🇪🇺🇮🇳ambitious & comprehensive strategic agenda for the years to come. Next step: EU&India to agree on a joint roadmap for early next year’s 🇮🇳🇪🇺Summit in Delhi.
New strategic 🇪🇺EU-#India🇮🇳 agenda: @EUCouncil approves conclusions.
Enhanced political, trade, economic, research & innovation, and security cooperation between the EU and India will boost the delivery of prosperity and stability for both peoples.
More 👇
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🚨Webinar Alert🚨
@CSDR_India and @boell_India invite you to the next webinar in our policy brief series India–Europe Relations: Advancing Policy Alignment
We are discussing “Green Horizons: Leveraging the EU–India Partnership for Climate Action” 🌍 with
Sangeeth Raja Selvaraju, Jesse Scott, Caroline Edery and @ShuvaRaha 🇮🇳🇪🇺
🗓️24 Sept 2025
🕑02:00 PM IST (10:30 AM CEST)
🔗Register Now: tinyurl.com/49spudz2
#India #Europe #GlobalGateway #CBAM
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What is the Global Gateway's potential within India's regional priorities in South Asia? 🇪🇺🇮🇳🇳🇵🇧🇩🇱🇰
How can these synergies combine 🇮🇳 and 🇪🇺 strategic priorities in the interest of Indo-Pacific connectivity?
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Join @CSDR_India @boell_India as we discuss all this and more!
📺 We are LIVE now on YouTube! with @CSDR_India
🎙️Global Gateway: Advancing EU–India Priorities in the Indo-Pacific
📘 Featuring the launch of our new policy brief & a panel discussion
🔗 Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=8PSezXVC…
#IndiaEU #GlobalGateway #ForeignPolicy #IndoPacific
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My latest for @IndiasWorld_mag looks at Vinterberg's Danish show Families Like Ours and its potent reimagining of exile, identity, and climate collapse in #Europe
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"Copenhagen, You're All I Have": Climate Collapse and The Boundaries of Belonging
indiasworld.in/copenhagen-yo…
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When contemporary Hindi cinema keeps failing us, we turn to the past. And what a past it is. My flashback column in THR's May magazine was about 10 years of PIKU. It's now online:
hollywoodreporterindia.com/f…
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📢 Happening Now!
Join @CSDR_India and @boell_India as we discuss the 🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU-India TTC: Turning Potential into Progress!
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📢 We Are Live!
Join us now for the webinar:
🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU-India Trade and Technology Council: Turning Potential into Progress
📺 Watch live on YouTube: piped.video/live/OHsGfxBhIFM…
📍 Hosted by @boell_India & @CSDR_India
#EUIndia #TTC #TradeAndTech #Geopolitics @amaiasc4
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Fruitful collaboration with @FESinAsia @marc_saxer
@mohr_christoph @DinkimSailo for the India Policy Lab on 'The New Geopolitics of Asia and the Global Order of Tomorrow'.
Expertly conducted by @LKYSch & @FESinAsia.
Insightful scenario-building exercises with Indian experts.
@LtGenHooda @ashokkkantha @vargheseKgeorge @ruheeneog @jabinjacobt @BashirAliAbbas @Harpoonleader @Ajaybis @AmbTrigunayat @PramitWorld @antaragsingh @swasrao @SahebSChadha @Sriparnapathak @RishiGupta_JNU @KapilD_P @Smita_Sharma @psanjay_in @SRaimedhi @NithyaEK @HappymonJacob @am_i_t_kumar @SaxenaAnushka_
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From The Print -- Bringing you an analysis from India’s World Magazine.
“IC 814 presents a world so familiar yet alien to the modern audience. It reflects a pre-9/11 reality that is now a distant memory.”
@d_makkat, in her review “Terror at the Turn of the Millennium: India’s Tryst with Global Jihad”, revisits the harrowing 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 through the lens of Netflix’s IC814: The Kandahar Hijack.
The piece unpacks how the series captures a moment of geopolitical drift—where bureaucratic infighting, diplomatic inertia, and an emerging jihadist threat collide in the dying days of the 20th century.
Kandahar echoes in India’s forgotten edges -- Revisiting India’s Periphery | Volume 1, Issue 2
For more expert insights on global affairs, subscribe to India’s World Magazine or visit indiasworld.in/
#IndiasWorld #IC814 #KandaharHijack #NetflixIndia #FlightIntoFear #WarOnTerror #CultureAndPolitics #CrisisDiplomacy #IndiaForeignPolicy @CSDR_India
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My latest for @IndiasWorld_mag on @anubhavsinha's 2024 Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack tracing the geo-political terrain of 🇮🇳's last major hijacking
Terror at the Turn of the Millennium: India’s tryst with Global Jihad | India's World indiasworld.in/terror-at-the…
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Excellent take on the current moment in trans-Atlantic rupture for 🇮🇳 and the need for strategic empathy towards 🇪🇺
'Trump-induced Europe crisis of today is India’s crisis tomorrow'
Sidharth Raimedhi @SRaimedhi, fellow at Council for Strategic and Defense Research, a New-Delhi-based Think Tank, writes
#ThePrintOpinion
theprint.in/opinion/trump-in…
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Big things happening in 🇪🇺🇮🇳! Join in with @IndiasWorld_mag and the EU delegation to India as we hear from the President of the EU Commission @vonderleyen
As we enter the third decade of the 🇪🇺🇮🇳 strategic partnership, one thing is clear.
The best is yet to come.
Together, we can shape the future and be one of the defining partnerships of this century↓ nitter.siddz.com/i/broadcasts/1vOxwXwwd…
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