Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently Life Trustee of India International Centre, Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India) and Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2011 for his contributions to civil service.
Shyam Saran is a Honorary Senior Faculty and Member of the Governing Board at Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010, he headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, a think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017) and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently Life Trustee of India International Centre, Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India) and Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2011 for his contributions to civil service.
Revelations in the Henderson Brooks Report should be examined in the light of archival material that is now available on Chinese perceptions and decision-making leading up to the conflict
The next government would do well to focus on governance reform
The author explains how the transition in Afghanistan will affect the India-Pakistan relationship in coming years
A disparate global network of violent fundamentalist Islamic groups threatens India's eastern flank as much as the north and west with a real possibility of these spilling over into our borders
Beijing is aggressively pushing, with some success, the internationalisation of its currency
The next general elections should be about more than politics as usual - they should be about the kind of country we wish to become
China's ambitious reform road map could transform the country's economy, but it conceals a return to old-style authoritarianism
The latest IPCC report leaves no room for doubt. India should take the lead in renewing international negotiations
China's economic problems are no longer the concern of just the Chinese
The author looks for silver linings on the eve of India's Independence Day
Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa are still a logical grouping
India has no compelling reason to grant his request for asylum but was unduly inhibited in raising its voice against the United States' extensive and vulgar intrusion into the privacy of its instituti
Concern for China's reaction must not stop India from pursuing closer relations with Japan
The Indian government should resist the temptation to make a grand gesture of friendship towards Nawaz Sharif
India needs a strategy to frustrate plans by Pakistan and its Taliban proxies to dominate Afghanistan after 2014
The Durban summit should lay out a new set of recipient-friendly norms for international development co-operation
India is consuming beyond its means - in terms of natural resources, that is
Given its reclaimed value to the US, Pakistan believes it can safely revert to its traditional posture of confronting India
India has completely failed to uphold its key interests at climate talks, which have fallen short of their 20-year mission