The envoy of the coming decade must be fluent in the grammar of the feed and the logic of the algorithm yet retain the older competences no platform can supply When I joined India’s foreign service four decades ago, the world was still...
What happens when the media begins to influence diplomacy? The answer can be traced from the corridors of the Cold War to today’s digital world. 'From 2014, Putin has broken the ceasefire 25 times… Twenty-five times he has broken his own...
Diplomacy was built around a simple sequence: assess, deliberate, decide, communicate. Social media has disrupted it. Today, the message can arrive first, forcing policy to follow. Diplomacy was once conducted largely behind closed...
On 12 August 1922, a photograph of an Indian visitor appeared on the front page of The Victoria Daily Times, a Canadian newspaper. Dressed formally, with a receding crop of white hair and earnest eyes, V. S. Srinivasa Sastri had arrived in...
