(1) There were three sides to Sri Aurobindo’s political ideas and activities. First, there was the action with which he started, a secret revolutionary propaganda and organisation of which the central object was preparation of an armed insurrection.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga

Derisking is a more pragmatic strategy than decoupling - to try to wall off the world's largest factory is a fool's errand, besides being rather Kalidas-esque. Importing shirts/toys/consumer electronics frm China is a different ballgame to importing semiconductors/EV batteries...

Met the 13 bright young candidates of the Hellenic Diplomatic Academy (Hellenic Diplomatic Academy).

Great hearing their thoughts on future of diplomacy, Indo-Greek ties and the world that we live in. Enlightening/ encouraging

Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών DelphiEconomicForum ORF #India #Greece #diplomacy

Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 Samir Saran ORF An entire generation has to sacrifice their comfortable life to de-couple from China and then re-build things in Europe. With political class deeply unpopular in many European countries, highly unlikely EU leaders make any decisions which will disrupt the status-quo.

Mad Max Fury Road is the greatest action movie of all time.

As Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga [Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga] launches next month, a fascinating thread on the best action film series ever made!
Age is no barrier for director George Miller, who turned 79 last month.

नई #EU रिपोर्ट में #China के डी-कपलिंग और डी-रिस्किंग के मामलों पर जोर डाला गया है। 11 सुझाव पेश किए गए हैं, चीन से व्यापारिक नियमों का पालन करने की अपील की गई है। जानें विवाद और चर्चा का मुद्दा.. सुनिए Naghma Sahar और Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 के साथ। यहाँ👉youtube.com/watch?v=7g1ie0…

From ‘decoupling’, the EU vocabulary of managing China has been devalued to ‘de-risking’.
But if de-whatever means decades, EU is already China’s lunch.
Samir Saran and I explore this theme in our recent essay in ORF.

orfonline.org/expert-speak/b…

Major #European companies have deepened investments in #China , despite the #EU scrambling for an exit strategy. This shows how strongly the corporate tail of a company is wagging the national security dog of an entire continent, Samir Saran & Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 orfonline.org/expert-speak/b…

If the lesson of #EU ’s energy dependence on #Russia , and the consequent decapitating impact on its #security in recent years, has not taught the #EU ‘Strategy 101’, nothing ever will, argue Samir Saran & Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 or-f.org/25561

Pleasure to have met Former Prime Minister of Greece George A. Papandreou.

Spoke about the evolving #India - #Greece friendship and avenues of strengthening a strategic partnership

DelphiEconomicForum ORF Raisina Dialogue

Delighted to moderate a session yesterday on #IMEC at the DelphiEconomicForum, featuring Thanos Dokos, Federico Banos-Lindner, ابتسام الكتبي and Yannis Zepos.

It was an honour to have #Greece FM Giorgos Gerapetritis open the session Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών

#India #Europe ORF

Agree to - jail for threatening violence, even murder. But wait, there is a man Gurpatwant Pannu in the US who has threatened to assassinate the Indian PM (not a US citizen) & runs a terror network. Why is he not in jail? Because Modi is not an elected official in the US?

As Samir Saran and I wrote recently in ORF, the #EU is addicted to China—there’s no other word that describes this relationship.
Read on to understand this addiction.
orfonline.org/expert-speak/b…

I loved the calm way that Alex Mathew ran this conversation.

Pleasure to be part on the inaugural show!

Even the discoveries of physical Science have been elevated into a creed and in its name religion and spirituality banned as ignorance and superstition, philosophy as frippery and moonshine.

#SriAurobindo #IntegralYoga #Consciousness

While #China has weaponised everything, from trade and #investments to #technology and culture, the #EU remains trapped in the pincer of its strategic-commercial constraints, highlight Samir Saran & Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 or-f.org/25561

नई #EU रिपोर्ट में #China के डी-कपलिंग और डी-रिस्किंग के मामलों पर जोर डाला गया है। 11 सुझाव पेश किए गए हैं, चीन से व्यापारिक नियमों का पालन करने की अपील की गई है। जानें विवाद और चर्चा का मुद्दा.. सुनिए Naghma Sahar और Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 के साथ। यहाँ👉youtube.com/watch?v=7g1ie0…

#BharatUnstoppable : More investments are likely to come. #Tesla will bring with it hundreds of more companies: Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳, VP ORF

Geo-economics is driven by geopolitics in today's time: Prof. Madhav Nalapat, Geopolitics Expert

#TheHardFacts Rahul Shivshankar

#ElonMusk #India #China

Thrilled to engage with experts, policymakers, media & post-grad students of Panteion University at Institute of International Relations.

Discussions on prospects of #Greece - #India relations and the current #WorldOrder

Ino Afentouli Kostas Ant Lavdas ORF

Some glimpses from the interaction 👇