RAISINA CHRONICLES: INDIA’S GLOBAL PUBLIC SQUARE

by S. Jaishankar, Samir Saran

  • Category Politics
  • Format Hardback
  • Imprint Rupa
  • Price 595
  1. ISBN: 978-93-6156-508-3
  2. Pages: 232 pages
  3. Date: 5th March 2025

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Raisina Chronicles celebrates a decade of the Raisina Dialogue. It brings together voices from across the world—of leaders and thinkers reflecting on the Raisina Dialogue’s impact on how we may navigate global challenges and create solutions that work. Putting India at the forefront of leading the change, the effect of these Dialogues is felt across policies and projections that the global family is working towards.
S. Jaishankar and Samir Saran, the editors, who are also the curators of the Dialogue, emphasize that diversity, dissent, discord, and divergence of opinion make for the necessary ingredients for a sustainable future, shaped and owned by all. Ten years since its inception, the Raisina Dialogue has become the paramount platform for bringing together cultures, peoples and opinions. It is now India’s flagship geopolitical and geoeconomic conference, and has truly become a global public square—located in New Delhi, incubated by the world.
In tandem with the curated discussions, Raisina Chronicles reflects on the Dialogue’s journey and brings to its readers a single volume containing thorough insights and unbridled optimism for finding common solutions to global challenges. As the world stands on the cusp of structural and historical change, the hope that is central to this work is for the voices of the people to be at the forefront of global politics and policymaking, resonating through power corridors, and finding their way to the masses. For leaders to implement change, society must come together to take that one step forward in the right direction.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

S. Jaishankar has been India’s External Affairs Minister since May 2019 and is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha representing Gujarat. He was India’s Foreign Secretary from 2015 to 2018. In a career spanning four decades in the Indian Foreign Service, he served as Ambassador to the United States, China and Czech Republic, and as High Commissioner to Singapore. He is also the author of several best- selling publications including The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World (2020) and Why Bharat Matters (2024).
Samir Saran is President of the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), India’s premier policy think tank. He founded the organization’s affiliates in America and the Middle East, and continues to provide board-level leadership. Samir is Curator of the Raisina Dialogue; Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Geopolitics; and member of the Board of Governors of The East West Centre, US. Samir has authored five books, edited and curated many important monographs and journals, and written several academic papers and essays. He is featured regularly in Indian and international print and broadcast media