Shyam Saran
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Shyam Saran
Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently Life Trustee of India International Centre, Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India) and Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2011 for his contributions to civil service.
Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently Life Trustee of India International Centre, Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India) and Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2011 for his contributions to civil service.
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Shyam Saran: The morning-after principle
Humanitarian intervention has little meaning unless the international community is willing to engage in the aftermath
Shyam Saran: Is there merit in India turning into a 'tough' state?
The choice before the next government is not between being a soft state and a tough state; it is between being a smart state and a dumb state
Shyam Saran: The dangers of nuclear revisionism
Arguments to abandon India's 'no first use' policy for nuclear weapons are fallacious
Shyam Saran: 1962 - The view from Beijing
Revelations in the Henderson Brooks Report should be examined in the light of archival material that is now available on Chinese perceptions and decision-making leading up to the conflict
Shyam Saran: India-China border dispute - Coping with asymmetry
Sustaining the status quo depends on our ability to make attempts to change it risky for the other side
Shyam Saran: A three-point agenda
The next government would do well to focus on governance reform
Shyam Saran: The shadow of Afghanistan
The author explains how the transition in Afghanistan will affect the India-Pakistan relationship in coming years
Shyam Saran: Terrorism is now global and local
A disparate global network of violent fundamentalist Islamic groups threatens India's eastern flank as much as the north and west with a real possibility of these spilling over into our borders
Shyam Saran: The Chinese (yuan) are coming!
Beijing is aggressively pushing, with some success, the internationalisation of its currency
Shyam Saran: Beyond electoral democracy
The next general elections should be about more than politics as usual - they should be about the kind of country we wish to become
Shyam Saran: Xi Jinping's Deng moment
China's ambitious reform road map could transform the country's economy, but it conceals a return to old-style authoritarianism
Shyam Saran: Climate change - An unequivocal report
The latest IPCC report leaves no room for doubt. India should take the lead in renewing international negotiations
Shyam Saran: China's flawed rebalancing
China's economic problems are no longer the concern of just the Chinese
A cloudy Independence Day
The author looks for silver linings on the eve of India's Independence Day
Time to resurrect G5
Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa are still a logical grouping
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The case of Snowden and global voyeurism
India has no compelling reason to grant his request for asylum but was unduly inhibited in raising its voice against the United States' extensive and vulgar intrusion into the privacy of its instituti