I would like to begin by thanking Professor Vaneeta Patnaik for inviting me on behalf of the National Institute of Juridical Sciences, and the Ministry of External Affairs for making it possible for me to come to Kolkata. I also want to commend Pranaav Gupta and his open minded student collaborators, for inviting me to speak based on having found my writings interesting and I hope provocative.
My name is Neelam Deo and I write for a foreign policy think tank based in Mumbai, Gateway House, which I cofounded in 2009 after a satisfying career in the Indian Foreign Service.
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