The recent BRICS summit and BIMSTEC outreach highlighted some laudable maritime endeavours linking geographically distant, emerging economies within the grouping. The BIMSTEC platform is also crucial to India’s efforts to create a peaceful Bay of Bengal community through economic and cultural linkages.
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By Vice Admiral Anil Chopra, Distinguished Fellow, International Security and Maritime Studies, Gateway House

The recent inauguration of the New Development Bank in Shanghai has made that city a focal point of international financial transactions between the five BRICS countries. This occasions revisiting some of the ways in which Bombay has been historically linked to it.
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By Sifra Lentin, Adjunct Fellow, Bombay History Studies, Gateway House

In the wake of the third and final presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House gives her take on how the debate went, whether there’s been historical precedence on the issue of foreign involvement in the election and how Trump’s ‘suspense’ comment could damage the American democratic system.

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From October 16 to 19, Ambassador Neelam Deo, Director, Gateway House, attended the Forum 2000 conference in Prague where she was a panelist.The theme of the conference was the state of democracy in the world today and the challenges posed to it.

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