In Conversation with Salman Khurshid: Sanjaya Baru, policy analyst and former media adviser to Indian PM

In the latest episode of In Conversation with Salman Khurshid, Sanjaya Baru, author, policy analyst, journalist, and former media adviser to Indian PM Manmohan Singh, argues that India needs to stop looking at its diaspora only through the lens of remittances and soft power. He points out that Indians abroad are increasingly facing anti-immigration sentiment in the West, just like Africans and Muslims.

On the global economic order, he says the West’s weaponization of trade and energy proves exactly why the world needs non-Western blocs like BRICS. And on India-Russia ties, he believes the relationship needs to go well beyond defense and oil – into new products and deeper people-to-people connections.