16 June 2022: joined as visiting professor at University of British Columbia (Vancouver Campus) for a year; did a short campus tour with HoD Political Science Department, Prof Richard Price
1st Sept 2022: with Dr Rajkumar Ranjan Singh (MoS External Affairs & Education) Amb Ung Sean (Cambodia is ASEAN Chair) Inaugural Session of AAS-MEA 3-day Conf ‘Connecting East: Confluence of IPOI & AOIP’
23 Aug 2023: minutes before last stage of Chandrayaan landing was making India proud, I was delivering my talk on “What makes India’s G20 Presidency Unique? at JNU’s G20 University Connect Lecture Series
20 July 2020: copies of my latest book titled ‘Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Studies of China’s and Chineseness’ published by World Scientific (Singapore) finally arrived
23 Feb 2023: Great event on the ‘Year of Millets 2023’ organised in UBC by Indian Consulate Vancouver. Having replaced wheat & rice with millets for last 3 years, I can vouch for the amazing health benefits of these super foods.
10 Sept 2021: nice feeling to see my School upgraded to a Model School; met Mr K K Sharma, current Principal (decades ago, it was such a challenge to enter this office)
1st Oct 2022: delivered the Salt Spring Forum talk on “Enter the Dragon: China and the Indo-Pacific region”; thanks to Michael Byers, Tim Brook, Richard Steel, Maruel, France and others of the team
27 May 2021: World Scientific (Singapore) just announced my next book, "Revisiting Gandhi: Legacies for World Peace and National Integration", on their website,
27 जुलाई 2023: BBC हिंदी की भारत-चीन राष्ट्र सुरक्षा सलाहकारों की बैठक पर मेरे विचार: डॉ. स्वर्ण सिंह कहते हैं, ''देशों के बीच जितना मतभेद होता है, उतनी ही परिभाषाएं निकलती हैं चूंकि भारत-चीन के बीच मतभेद हैं, इसलिए बैठक को लेकर दोनों के मत अलग हैं.''
3rd March 2023: speaking today at University of Victoria, Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives Conf on “Canada, Southeast Asia and Indo-Pacific Strategy”
26 Aug 2023: addressed Air Force Station Kalaikunda air warriors on ‘Deciphering India’s China Challenge: An Assessment’ and received a very professional familiarisation too
18 Jan 2023: spoke on “Revival of SAARC or its Replacement” at three-day Int Conf ‘Regional Dialogue 2023’ hosted by Institute of Regional Studies (Islamabad) 17-19 Jan 2023
9 अगस्त 2022: राजस्थान पत्रिका में मेरा भारत की विदेश नीति के उपेक्षा से अपकेक्षाओं तक के सफ़र पर विश्लेषण की किस तरह आज भारत का अपने मूल हितों को लेकर निश्चयात्मक रूख विशेषज्ञों की चर्चा का विषय बन रहा है
20 July 2023: Pleasantly surprised and elated to attend Dance recital at India International Centre (New Delhi) by Ms Gaurie Dwivedi who I had long known but only as anchor and journalist
1st Dec 2023: my interview in The Hindu today on whether the emerging world order is going to be bipolar which is a proposition that I problematise and contest
4 Aug 2021: Chaired AAS Wed Webinar on "China's Approach to Maritime Security in the Indian Ocean" by Dr Jeffery Becker, Director, Indo-Pacific Security Program, Centre for Naval Analysis, Arlington, District of Columbia, United States
14 July 2023: spoke at National Defence College (New Delhi) on the concluding panel of two day capsule on Conflict Resolution and Negotiations; spoke on India-China Border
15 Dec 2021: Chaired 57th AAS Wednesday Webinar talk by Prof Larry Diamond of Hoover Institute, Stanford University (US) on “The Global Democratic Recession and How to Reverse it”?
7 Oct 2023: chaired second session of the CIPOD Young Scholars Conference on ‘International Relations in the Anthropocene’ held at India International Centre, New Delhi
17 Jan 2023: spoke at the opening session on "From Oppression to Freedom" at two-day (17-18 Jan) International Conference on "75 years of India's foreign policy" hosted by Indian Council of World Affairs (New Delhi)
25 July 2022: delivered a talk to 8th BRICS Summer School, Cntr for BRICS Studies, Fudan Univ (45 young participants) on "Global Governance and Multilateral Coop: Indian Perspectives" as part of this year's theme of 'A New Stage of Globalisation: BRICS Countries' Dev Impetus'
26 July 2022: joined in the Conferment Ceremony hosted by Consulate General of India (Vancouver) on Mr Jeffery Armstrong being conferred ICCR Distinguished Indologist Award for 2021
4 Oct 2022: delivered Valedictory Address at three-day international conference on “Gandhi, Pandemic and International Politics” by Centre for Gandhian Thought, Central University of Gujarat, Ahmedabad
27 Nov 2021: concluded AAS three day hybrid Climate Change Conf at India Habitat Centre with Address by Prof Sachin Chaturvedi (DG, RIS); all session will soon be on our YouTube Channel
21 June 2021: my chapter on "The Evolving Asian Security Architecture: Institutions and Processes", in E Sridharan (ed). 'Eastward Ho? India's Relations with the Indo-Pacific', Orient BlackSwan April 2021
28 May 2021: my review of Zorawar Daulet Singh's book Powershift: India-China Relations in a Multipolar World (Macmillan, Delhi: 2020) in June 2021 issue of Seminar
17 मई 2022: चीन के राष्ट्रपति शी चिनफ़िंग के “वैश्विक सुरक्षा पहल” के प्रस्ताव पर राजस्थान पत्रिका में मेरा एक विश्लेषण PDF file below but link for text file is:
21 April 2021: Chaired AAS Wednesday Webinar by Prof Renato Cruz DeCastro (De La Salle University, Manila) on "China's Grey Zone Operations in South China Sea"
Join a session on "Future of Disarmament and Nuclear Arms Control" hosted jointly by NIICE and AAS starting 07:15PM India Time, 13 Feb 2021 at Zoom link:
Meeting ID: 862 0914 0510
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25 Jan 2021: delivered a talk on "Theory of Protracted Social Conflicts" to participants of Refreshers Course in Social Sciences, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab)
19 May 2021: Chaired AAS Wed Webinar by Dr George Tzogopoulos (Director, EU-China Program, European Institute, Nice, France) on “European Union’s Indo-Pacific Strategy”
29 April 2021: spoke on 'Why Quad will never become Asian-NATO?" at two day (29-30 April) Int'l Conf on 'The Quad and the Indo-Pacific' organised by The Indian Futures.
15 Oct 2023: arrived in Taiwan; met friends in Taipei at dinner followed by going for Indian classical bamboo flute concert of my favourite Rakesh Chaurasia