The Challenges to India's National Security

CASI Seminar
Sushant Singh
Deputy Editor, The Indian Express; Lecturer, Yale University
Center for the Advanced Study of India
Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
133 South 36th Street, Suite 230
Philadelphia PA 19104-6215

 


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About the Speaker:
Sushant Singh is the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express newspaper in Delhi, where he writes about national security, international relations, higher judiciary, and investigative agencies. Before turning to journalism, he served in the Indian Army for twenty years, including multiple stints in Jammu and Kashmir. He also served as a United Nations Military Observer in Cote D’Ivoire. He is also a Lecturer in political science at Yale University. Singh is the 2017 recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, and is the author of Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military (2016) and co-author of Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017 (2018).

About the Lecture:
As India grapples with renewed global attention following the recent events in Kashmir, this seminar will examine the challenges to India's national security. As an emergent power, India is an important country in Asia, with its economic and geo-political strength being noticed globally. A major share of the country’s heft comes from its national security paradigm, which has undergone a significant shift in recent years and faces both old and new challenges. This seminar will look at these challenges by examining the basis of India's national security and its evolution in its various dimensions.

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The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
The Saluja Global Fellows Program has been made possible by the generous gift from Vishal Saluja ENG’89 W’89. CASI was excited to launch the program during the 2022–23 academic year, coinciding with the Center’s 30th Anniversary. This new program enables CASI to invite eminent leaders and rising experts on contemporary India preferably from the fields of media, culture, law, and contemporary history to be in residence for one to two weeks at CASI.