Rup Narayan Das

The writer, a former joint secretary of Lok Sabha secretariat, was a senior fellow at Monohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses’ and also a former senior fellow of Indian Council of Social Science Research and a Taiwan Fellow 2022.

Contributions

President Smt. Draupadi Murmu Cements Ties with Portugal and Slovakia

April 29, 2025 Rup Narayan Das

It is instructive to note how India is engaging high dignitaries like President of India in enhancing its global profile abroad. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi steers the ship of India’s diplomacy in tandem with India’s no-nonsense Foreign Mi...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, India, modi, Maldives, Mauritius, Slovakia, Om Birla, Portugal, Draupadi Mrmu, Jaishanakar

Pitfalls of Parliament Debate on China

December 31, 2024 Rup Narayan Das

On 3rd December External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar made a suo moto statement in the Lok Sabha and informed the members about current state of relations between India and China after the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Governance and Political Studies, Commentary, India, China, Parliament, Nehru, resolution, Noorani, Menon

Taiwan’s Tipping Point

October 10, 2024 Rup Narayan Das

As Taiwan, officially known as Republic of China, celebrants its ‘Double Ten’ National Day on 10 October, there is gnawing anxiety of its existential survival since Chiang Kai-shek, its founding father, broke away from the mainland to proclaim Pe...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, US, China, Taiwan, Nixon, KMT, Kissinger, CCP Mao Zedong, Chips Act, Shanghai Communique, Taiwan Strait Crisis

India’s Hard Power through the Prism of Gandhi’s Soft Power of Non-violence

October 01, 2024 Rup Narayan Das

When the world will be observing Gandhi’s birthday as International Day of Non-violence as declared by the United Nations and at a time when India has emerged as one of the major powers in the world demonstrating its prowess, a natural question ari...

Tags: Historical and Civilisational Studies, Commentary, modi, Galwan, Gandhi, Nuclear test Vajpayee, Pokhran

The Traction of India-Singapore Relations

September 02, 2024 Rup Narayan Das

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is paying a two-day visit to Singapore on September 4th and 5th on the second leg of his visit after visiting the oil rich Brunei. His visit to these two important Southeast Asian countries is taking place close on the he...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Commentary, China, modi, ASEAN, Indo-Pacific, South China Sea, Shangri La Dialogue, Narasimha Rao, Singapore, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lee Kuan Yew

Book Published / Book Reviews

“India’s China Challenge: A Journey through China’s rise and what it means for India” by Ananth Krishnan, Harper Collins, 2021, pp.420, Price Rs. 599

June 03, 2021 Rup Narayan Das

No scholar following India-China relations in India or abroad can ever claim anonymity with Ananth Krishnan regarded as the most authentic interpreter of India-China relations for about decades as a correspondent filing despatches from mainland China...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, China, Book Reviews