As India grows so does its international interests. However India’s core foreign policy imperatives still remain in its immediate neighbourhood. These are a peaceful periphery, which India believes is necessary for its development. For this, India wants its neighbours to join the Indian growth story so they can grow as well. How well has India been able to broaden the stakes of development among its neighbours, and will historical differences cast a shadow on regional cooperation? Is India ready to walk the extra mile to strengthen bridges of friendship and create new opportunities for growth, security and well-being of neighbours both bilaterally and through regional mechanisms?
The panelists for this session are Amb. Aloke Sen, Former Ambassador to Myanmar,Major General (Retd) Arun Roye, AVSM, VSM-Founder Director of CENERS, Kolkata and Mr. Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul, Managing Director, Nicco Engineering Services Limited.
Ms. Indrani Bagchi, Diplomatic Editor, The Times of India will moderate this session.
Participation will be by prior registration only.
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Ambassador Aloke Sen – Former Indian ambassador to Myanmar
Ambassador Aloke Sen was Indian envoy to Burma until July 2010, when he retired from the Indian Foreign Service. He earlier held ambassadorial positions in Cambodia and Turkey. His diplomatic experience spans more than three decades, during which he toured Bangladesh, Canada, Algeria and Uzbekistan, among other countries. Between April-May 2011, he was Ambassador-at-Residence at Calcutta University’s Institute of Foreign Policy Studies. Amb. Sen obtained a Bachelors’ degree with Honors in Economics from Presidency College and a Masters’ in English Literature from Bombay University.
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Major General (Retd.) Arun Roye AVSM, VSM – Founder Director of CENERS, Kolkata (Centre for Eastern and North Eastern Regional Studies)
Major Gen Arun Roye , a graduate of National Defence Academy, was commissioned into the 2nd Battallion the Rajput Regiment in 1967. He saw frontline action in Chhamb in 1971, with the 8th Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry. The unit was the recipient of the highest number of gallantry awards in the Indian Army, and won two battle honours in the same operation. He commanded a frontline Mountain Brigade facing the Chinese on the Watershed in Sikkim, and went onto become the General Officer Commanding of the frontline Desert Division in Gujarat and Rajasthan during OP Parakram facing Pakistan. He held the appointment of the ADG Assam Rifles under the MHA in the North East. He has also held the diplomatic assignment of Military and Defence Advisor in USA. He was designated as the senior member of the Joint Working Group with China on Anti- Terrorism by the MHA. Qualified in Higher Command from Army War College, a graduate in Defence Studies from Chennai University, he followed up his MBA from IIMM Delhi with a degree in Strategic Management from College of Defence Management. He is presently the Executive Director and Secretary, of the Research Centre for Eastern and North Eastern Regional Studies Kolkata, CENERS-K for short.
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Shiv Siddhant Narayan Kaul – Managing Director, Nicco Engineering Services Limited
Mr Kaul is the Vice President of the Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Managing Director of Nicco Engineering Services Limited, part of the Nicco group of companies which has activities in cable manufacturing, theme parks and specialty industrial maintenance services. After school at St. Xaviers Kolkata, he received a BA from the College of Wooster and a MSE from Princeton University in the US. While at Princeton he taught as a graduate instructor and was published in The Journal of Alternative Investments. Mr Kaul worked for over 4 years in New York at Bank of America’s, Capital Markets Group, rising to be a Vice President of Fixed-Income trading prior to joining the Nicco Group in Kolkata.
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Indrani Bagchi – Diplomatic Editor, Times of India
Indrani is Diplomatic Editor with The Times of India, where she reports and analyses foreign policy issues for the newspaper. Indrani covers daily news on foreign affairs in the foreign office, as well as interpret and analyze global trends with an Indian perspective. She writes news stories as well as opinion articles, news features, a blog, “Globespotting” and a fortnightly column for The Times of India Crest edition. The subjects she covers are diverse: India’s neighbourhood, US, China, Pakistan, terrorism, nuclear weapons, national security issues etc. She joined the Times of India in 2004. Earlier, Indrani was associate editor, also covering foreign affairs for India Today. Indrani started her journalism career in The Statesman where she was the weekend editor, before moving to The Economic Times in Calcutta to edit the Metro Magazine. Having graduated from Loreto College, Calcutta University with English Honours, Indrani has been a Reuters Fellow, in Oxford University (1996). In 2010, India was awarded the Chang Lin-Tien fellowship by the Asia Foundation to study US-China relations at Brookings Institution, Washington DC. She is a Fellow of the Third Generation Class of Aspen India’s Leadership Initiative.
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