Dean/Professor,OP Jindal Global University, India. Former Indian Ambassador. DG, Motwani Jadeja Institute for American Studies. Website: ambmokumar.com
Delhi, NCR
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Appointment of Professor (Dr.) Mohan Kumar as DEAN of the Office of International Affairs & Global Initiatives of Jindal Global University. Sharing some good news and hoping to make a singnificant contribution!
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Proud to co-author an article in Foreign Affairs with Ken Juster, Naushad Forbes and Wendy Cutler
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Heartiest congratulations to IFS icon and mentor @HardeepSPuri Ji on completing five glorious decades in public life. I had the privilege of starting my career with him and interacting on many foreign and economic policy areas thereafter and to succeed him as Chairman RIS.
A brilliant IFS officer of 1974 batch,
stellar diplomat, powerful orator, he would launch a charm offensive to win friends for India. Equally he was formidable in defending India’s interests whenever challenged. He was an exemplar for us in IFS in the way he developed domain mastery over every subject and territorial jurisdiction he dealt with He was the youngest to Chair key committees of GATT and was in the largest number of Dispute Settlement Panels of GATT/ WTO as an authority on international Trade. He brought gravitas to economic diplomacy both as Director (MER) and later Secretary (ER)
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Happy Teachers Day!!! Probably the most sensible decision I made after retirment from the IFS to become a Professor!!!
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Indian Embassy telephone 0140507070 open, we hope all Indians are safe. Our prayers with families affected and solidarity with France.
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My second Book published by Harper Collins will be available on Amazon feom November 29 onwards. Thanks.
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Great pleasure to meet and interact with the IFS Officer Traineesof 2021 Batch. Literally looking at the future!!!
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Happy Indian Foreign Service Day. Grateful, for it gave me everything (and more) than I ever wished for!
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Ma'amhave also spoken to him, doing everything possible to help; he is a french citizen and a PIO card holder. Thanks and respects, Mohan
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Pronunciation tip to all TV anchors this evening: Rafale is pronounced " Rafaaal" and the "e" at the end is silent!
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Immense honour to be appointed as Chairman, RIS. Overawed by illustrious list of predecessors, big shoes to fill. Will give it my all!!
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Addressed the 2023 batch of the IFS and felt I was 100 years old. But seriously, very bright and smart, Foreign Service in good hands!!!
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Yeh kya Dilli ko Toronto bana ke Rakha hai! Kuch to Madrassiyon ka bhi socho bhai! 5 degree celsius
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My article in Indian Express on PM Modi's recent visit to France.
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Fantastic initiative to supply vaccines to the UN Peacekeepers. Something no P5 Member able/willing to do. This alone entitles India a seat at the high table!!
@narendramodi
@DrSJaishankar
@ambtstirumurti
@harshvshringla
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Now that France has made up with Australia, it will be interesting to see if we can quickly revive the Australia-India- France trilateral in the Indo-Pacific!
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My Book " India's Moment" by Harper Collins is available at all outlets from today. Thanks in advance.
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It was great representing O.P.Jindal Global University at the Cornell Global Hubs meeting on 16 and 17 November!
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At a Jindal Harvard Study Abroad programme on Human Rights. Dr Shashi Tharoor key note speaker on Universal Human Rights and me the next day on WTO and Human Rights! A pleasure and honour to be at the Harvard Kennedy School on behalf of Jindal Global Univ.
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So Pelosi skips Taiwan, if reports are to be believed. Don't know how to interpret this except as a huge psy win for China!!!
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My blog on Indo-Pak ties after the SCO Goa meet may be of interest.
ambmokumar.com/blog/
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Somehow we now need a replacement for the term “Wuhan spirit” in the context of Indo-China ties!
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My article on prospects for an India-EU FTA for Carnegie may interest some.
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Really happy that Prof Sachin Chaturvedi has been reappointed as DG for a further term of 5 years. Hope to take RIS to new heights working with him and his team! Congrats @Sachin_Chat @RIS_NewDelhi
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Imran Khan is not just praising our foreign policy and diplomacy, but even Indian passports. Kahin buri nazar na lag jaay!!
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A great interaction with the IFS batch of 2022. Bright and enthusiastic officer trainees!!!
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My take on WTO in today's HT.
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It is fitting that Bangladesh has declared mourning for Pranab Da. He was not just fond of Bangladesh, his knowledge was encyclopaedic! I only had to listen to him as JS BSM. Everytime it was a masterclass.
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Installing bust of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in St Tropez. French General Allard helped modernization of Maharaja's army
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It was down memory lane to go back to the Academy at Mussoorie after 43 years to deliver a talk to mid-level IAS officers on geopolitics/geoeconmics. Needless to say a lot has changed in Mussoorie!
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On the eve of departure in Delhi with the Hon'ble MPs on a foreign tour of countries in East Asia.
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A real pleasure interacting with participants of the 2006 batch of the IFS for their mid career attachment.
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My take on the recently-concluded WTO Ministerial in Abu Dhabi.
The WTO struggles, yet again! ambmokumar.com/2024/03/03/th…
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My piece in Hindustan Times on the recently concluded G 7 Summit!
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For the first time, had the honour of representing RIS before the standing committee of the Ministry of External Affairs. Searching questions by honourable MPs and a great interaction followed! Thanks to all hon'ble members who participated.
@DrSJaishankar
@harshvshringla
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Took over as Vice Dean and Professor of Diplomatic Practice at Jindal School of International Affairs today. Excited to start a new innings!
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The G7 communique is 70 paragraphs long. Not to be outdone, NATO communique is 79 paragraphs long. Have constituted a team of young scholars who are scouring it, results in a months time!!!!
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On Int Diplomats day, very proud of having been one. Lucky to have served India and if ever there is re-incarnation wish to be born again as a Diplomat!
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No-tears Onion Diplomacy! India supplies onions first to Maldives, and now to UAE and Sri Lanka.
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My take on the international strategic landscape post AUKUS and Quad!
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A French political giant Jacques Chirac is no more! The first French leader to recognize the importance of India and may be the only Western leader to understand India's nuclear tests in 1998. A loss for France and for India. RIP!
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It was a pleasure catching up with dear friend Iain Lindsay and Bridget in London last night. Iain and I were Ambassadors for our respective countries in Bahrain post 2010.
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Great honour to be Vice Chair of Research and Information System for Developing Countries(RIS), grateful for the opportunity to contribute in the area of trade, investment, technology and innovation!
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A great honour to receive MOS Ms Meenakshi Lekhi at the RIS. A great tour d'horizon of all issues on which RIS can work with MEA!
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The National Education Policy is truly path breaking and epic. My only repeat only concern is with creating Indian Education Service, not sure about how this will work. But Congrats to GOI for a great report!
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Could this be the turning point we gave all been waiting for? Single day recoveries surpass fresh COVID cases in India!!!
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The most important COVID outcome for international relations: in addition to food security and energy security, there must now be "health security" as a strategic objective for major countries like India!!!
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A brand new expression for IR policy wonks: integrated bilateral strategic stability dialogue between US and Russia!!
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EU and China agree on an Investment deal despite US reservations. Wonder what repercussions there will be for the transatlantic alliance? @samirsaran @TheresaAFallon @tanvi_madan @MohanCRaja @sandiplomat
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A pleasure and honour to be at the inauguration of Bon Jour India!
@FranceinIndia @M_Lekhi @sandiplomat @
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As a multilateralist par excellence he was India's Permanent Representative to UN in both Geneva & New York and wielded influence way above India’s power league and left an indelible imprint. In a moment of reckoning for India and global peace and security, he steered India’s membership of the UNSC and chaired UN’s Counter Terrorism Committee of the Security Council.
His ambassadorship in Brazil was remarkable for lifting that relationship to greater heights and in carving a new geography of international trade and economy through India-Brazil partnership including in IBSA and BRICS. I saw him lend his deft touch to Indo British ties as India's DHC in London and to India-West Europe and Indo-US relations at crucial junctures as JS (EW)/ JS( AMS).
An ideas and action entrepreneur, he often ventured into paths never trodden by IFS officers. I saw in Sri Lanka how like a fearless soldier-diplomat, he bravely walked through the landmines in Jaffna, boldly negotiated with LTTE leader Prabhakaran and brought him to Delhi to join the Indo-Sri Lanka peace agreement. At the Defence Ministry, he became the first foreign service officer to head a division of the armed forces as JS (Navy).
IFS fraternity also celebrated Hardeep Ji joining PM @narendramodi’s Council of Ministers serving with distinction as India's longest serving Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs (7 years) & as Ministers of Civil Aviation and Commerce and now continues as Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas for three years , ensuring energy security through oil diplomacy in trying times .
@MEAIndia @IndianDiplomats @IndiaUNGeneva @IndiaUNNewYork @indiainbrazil @IndianEmbTokyo @HCI_London @UN @MoHUA_India @MoCA_GoI @PetroleumMin @IndiainSL @indiannavy@IndianEmbassyUS
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Afghanistan has always been associated with the "great game" where they were not the main actors. Today they have won the greatest game of all. Congrats to the doughty Afghan team for reaching the semis. If anyone deserved it they did!!!
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Happy IFS day! It was a privilege to have served for 36 years in what I believe to be the best Indian Civil Service!!!
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This is a must-read for the thin-tank community and policy makers in India. Macron at his strategic best!
geopolitique.eu/en/macron-gr…
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The important thingbis not that India invited France, it is the one major strategic partnership that is totally problem free. But France accepting it in the circumstances shows wisdom, magnanimity and above all a special commitment to the bilateral relationship.
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Laid down office of Indian Ambassador to France moments ago. On to Delhi to do other things with my life. Leaving diplomacy after 36 yrs!
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PM's announcement that India will achieve net zero by 2070 is bold and daring. Frankly, it should shame the developed countries into advancing their own deadlines for net zero!
@PMOIndia
@DrSJaishankar
@harshvshringla
@GhoshArunabha
@teriin
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Archita Goyal of the Jindal School of International Affairs has made it to the IFS Sir!!!
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My blog may interest some!
US and EU deal with China differently ambmokumar.com/2024/04/29/us…
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Delicious irony in today's world: lots of countries have strategic petroleum reserves but nothing even remotely approaching strategic medical reserves!
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My blog on Sino-Indian ties!
Sino-Indian thaw in the offing? ambmokumar.com/2024/07/26/si…
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Absolutely brilliant francophone audience from Africa which loved my talk in French. Thanks to FSI!
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My take on the WTO Ministerial Conference!
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Have followed Indian Diplomacy for some 40 years now. The sheer number and the range of meetings that our PM and our EAM have had over the last few days is truly unprecedented in India's diplomatic history! Bravo team India! @narendramodi @DrSJaishankar @PMOIndia @MEAIndia
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@nipun_abbi @SushmaSwaraj @Indian_Embassy please call my office number at 0145206073 around 9 30 am , we will help you. Thanks
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Quick analysis of what went wrong for India. Faulty team selection. For Pujara conditions were tailor made, he failed. For Rahane, an excellent opportunity, he failed. Kohli's big match player reputation is dented. India's tail not capabke of adding even 20 runs. @bhogleharsha
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In a TV interview for DD yesterday, I made the point that if India is going to retain and access the strategic petroleum reserves in the US, then, we could offer to keep strategic pharma product reserves in India for access by the US. Builds trust for resilient supply chains!
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It is great that the maiden green bond in India was able to attract $ 1 billion ans that too on terms better than conventional bonds. Landmark achievement!!!
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It is funny that the Silver by Avinash Sable felt like Gold and the Silver by the Womens Cricket Team felt like Bronze!!!!
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Dinner with the EU High Representative Mr Josep Borell in Delhi. Interesting discussion on Ukraine, China and FTA between EU and India!!!
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My article in HT on the subject of foreign aid!
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PM Modi's trip to France!
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My blog on the recently concluded G 20 and Quad meetings in Delhi may be of interest!
ambmokumar.com/blog/
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Great to have participated in a WION programme dealing with global affairs yesterdaywith some of my colleagues! @DrSJaishankar
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I was joined by the redoubtable Shashi Tharoor and the indomitable Samir Saran!
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It was a pleasure and honour to interact with a bunch of Indian Trade Service Officers on India's trade and industrial policy!!!
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The real problem is: India rightly seeks disengagement first followed by de-escalation. The Chinese, I suspect, seek de-escalation followed by little or no troop disengagement. Am afraid we are in it for the long haul!
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