FACT & FICTION
INDIA: The Eastern Front
Wednesday, 5 March | 3pm UK | 8.30pm India | 9pm Bangladesh | 9.30pm Myanmar
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What have India's relations with its eastern neighbours — Bangladesh and Myanmar — been in the past, and in recent times? Focused on the recently published India's Near East: A New History (2024), this event will discuss India's connections, engagement, foreign policy, and geo-strategic interests encompassed in her 'Act East' policy, in a region of interest to China as well.
SPEAKERS: Sreeradha Datta (@sreeradhadatta) is Professor of International Affairs, O. P. Jindal Global University (Sonepat) and author of Act East Policy and Northeast India (2021); Dr Md Shariful Islam is Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Rajshahi, and author of Fifty Years of Bangladesh-India Relations: Issues, Challenges and Possibilities (2021); Dr Avinash Paliwal (@PaliwalAvi) is Reader in International Relations, SOAS University of London, and author of India's Near East: A New History (2024); Khin Zaw Win is Director, Tampadipa Institute (Yangon), and has been engaged in building a plurilateral Myanmar.
CO-CHAIRS: Abhilash Puljal (@puljal), an LSE alumnus, is Director, LSE Research and Education Foundation India (LSEREF-India); Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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This event is part of our Fact & Fiction series, and is in collaboration with the LSE Research and Education Foundation India (LSEREF-India).
Please e-mail southasiacentre@lse.ac.uk to register free; the livestream link will be sent to all registered attendees on the day of the event.
Banner image © Tom Hermans, 2017, Unsplash.
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