Policy Watch: India’s Place in the World – June 2019

We are happy to bring this edition of Policy Watch focusing on India’s Place in the World, which has the following three sub-themes:

i. India’s Neighbours – China, SAARC, BIMSTEC and ASEAN – Trade, Investment and Cultural Relations
ii. The Global Rise of Right Wing Populism – Its Impact on India
iii. Can Soft Power Enhance India’s Place in the World

This issue of Policy Watch covers two sub-themes. There are two speeches on India-China Trade, Investment and Cultural Relations, one by Shri Rajiv Gandhi when he visited China in 1988 and the other of 2019, by former Indian Ambassador to China, Mr Gautam Bambawale.

The second set of articles compares the status of women in Germany in the 1930s with their status in 2019. The first piece is by Ruchira Gupta, a global activist, and the second by a German sociologist Marianne Schmidbaur. The final piece is on the theoretical and action implications of the Global Rise of Right Wing Populism for India, by Prof Somnath Ghosh, Senior Visiting Fellow, RGICS.