Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

A career diplomat, Satish Chandra served as India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Offices in Geneva and later as High Commissioner to Pakistan. He, subsequently, went on to head the National Security Council Secretariat and was Deputy National Security Advisor.

Contributions

Indus Waters Treaty Was A Bad Deal For India, Happy It Is In Abeyance Now

May 01, 2025 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

India has more or less walked out of the 65 year old Indus Waters Treaty following the horrific terrorist attack in Pahalgam last week. So far it has kept the implementation of the treaty in abeyance 'with immediate effect, until Pakistan credibly an...

Tags: National Security and Strategic Studies, Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, India, Pakistan, Kashmir, Pahalgam, Pahalgam Attack, Indus, Indus water streaty, Pahalgam terror attack

Persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh

February 25, 2025 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

(Given below is the transcript of the presentation made by Sh. Satish Chandra Vice Chairman, VIF during the event held on the subject at the VIF on 24 Feb 2025) I am very glad that the Vivekananda International Foundation has organized an e...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Bangladesh, Article, Bangladesh, East Pakistan, Sheikh Hasina, Ethnic Cleansing, hindus, Calcutta killings, Nehru Liaquat Ali pact

India’s Role in The World Today

September 20, 2024 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Any projection of the trajectory of India’s role in the world in the coming times demands first, an understanding of the current state of the world, and second, an awareness of the factors that are likely to influence its role. The World To...

Tags: International Relations and Diplomacy, Article, Climate Change, Indian foreign policy, Indian Diaspora, UNHRC, WTO, Aatmanirbhar Bharat, Neighbourhood first policy, Ukraine Conflict, Global South Summit

A Retired Bureaucrat’s 2024 Election Takeaways

June 10, 2024 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

With the dust of the 2024 election having finally settled and a new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government having been sworn in it is now appropriate to attempt to tease out some of its key takeaways. For starters, it should definitively pu...

Tags: Governance and Political Studies, Commentary, India, democracy, Congress, BJP, election, PM Modi, NDA, Opposition

An Overview: Modi Government’s Approach to its SAARC Neighbours (2014-2024)

April 25, 2024 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Indian foreign policy under the Modi government has been characterised by unparalleled energy, informed by great vision and maturity, and infused by a refreshing firmness. It has, above all, been guided by a non-hegemonistic approach firmly rooted in...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, India, Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bhutan, PM Modi, Bangladesh, South Asia, SAARC, Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy, Reflections on PM Narendra Modi's Foreign Policy

Monographs/Compendiums

India's Relations with its SAARC Neighbours

July 23, 2019 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

India's relations with its SAARC neighbours have, over the decades, oscillated from very good to stressed barring Pakistan and Bhutan. With the former they have generally been very bad and with the latter very good. With the rest, notably Afghanistan...

Tags: Neighbourhood Studies, Pakistan, Maldives, Bangladesh, SAARC neighbours, neighbours, Srilanka, Maps, India Relations with its SAARC Neighbours, SAARC, Monograph

Outreach

India-Pak: Calls for de-escalation and dialogue smack of defeatism

March 09, 2019 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Published in The Sunday Guardian on 9th March 2019....

The Trinity Of Power

November 19, 2018 Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF

Published in The Indian Express on 19th November 2018....