Dr Rao VBJ Chelikani Recently, in Indian Parliament, the Administration disclosed that approximately 10,152 Indian nationals are currently imprisoned abroad, mostly in Gulf countries, as of March 2025. It is important to note that this figure includes only Indian passport holders in a few countries and reflects those cases officially reported to Indian embassies. The actual numbers may be still higher. During a UN assignment in Singapore in the 1990s, I had the opportunity to visit several correctional facilities. My personal impression b…
Dr.Rao VBJ Chelikani The Global Risks Report presented before the World Economic Forum at Davos-25 identifies the state-based armed conflict as one of the five risks that require immediate attention. The realpolitik approach of conducting diplomatic or political negotiations with other states is based traditionally on the assumption that each state should pursue "strategic autonomy" to satisfy its own national interests exclusively. That was how marriages were arranged among the royal families in the past. No wonder, the current PO…
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