External Affairs Minister Jaishankar at Adda today

A scholar-diplomat with a deep insight, he is best placed to talk about Indian diplomacy in the last decade, vis-a-vis the past looking to the future.

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has been the face of India’s diplomacy in a fast-changing world in the last five years. The first Foreign Secretary to become the country’s Foreign Minister, he played a crucial role in shaping the foreign policy amid challenges that upended the world order — from the Covid-19 pandemic to an assertive China, Russia-Ukraine war to Israel-Hamas conflict.

As one of the most articulate voices on the Modi government’s foreign policy, Jaishankar has crafted the intellectual underpinnings of India’s place on the global stage with his two books — The India Way, and Why Bharat Matters. A scholar-diplomat with a deep insight, he is best placed to talk about Indian diplomacy in the last decade, vis-a-vis the past looking to the future.

Jaishankar will be the guest at the Express Adda in New Delhi on Monday and will be in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express Group, and Dr C Rajamohan, Contributing Editor, The Indian Express.

This is the second time Jaishankar will be a guest at the Express Adda. The last time was in September 2020, amid the pandemic, in an online mode.

The Express Adda is a series of informal interactions organised by The Indian Express Group and features those at the centre of change. Previous guests include Union Ministers Nirmala Sitharaman, Nitin Gadkari, Hardeep Singh Puri and Ashwini Vaishnaw; Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran; oncologist and author Siddhartha Mukherjee’ filmmakers Karan Johar and Meghna Gulzar; actors Kareena Kapoor Khan and Vicky Kaushal; policymaker, economist, and politician N K Singh and political philosopher and Harvard University Professor Michael J Sandel.

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