Ashok Sajjanhar

India’s success as the 2026 BRICS Chair will depend on its ability to keep the group focused on functional cooperation, including health, climate finance and multilateral reform.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• February 16, 2026 |
• Issue Brief

Cooperation and collaboration through multilateral institutions are the only viable and sustainable responses to a world grappling with complex global challenges.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• September 30, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

Additional responsibilities related to South and Central Asian Affairs on the new US Ambassadorial nominee could lead to diminished attention on the India–US ‘Global and Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• August 29, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

US President Donald Trump’s recent statements have equated India and Pakistan while it is clear that Pakistan is the perpetrator of terrorism and India the victim.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• May 22, 2025 |
• IDSA Comments

While President Muizzu’s policy towards India is short-sighted and lacks sophistication, India should continue with its measured response given the geo-strategic importance of Maldives.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• February 05, 2024 |
• IDSA Comments

President Putin’s short but highly consequential visit to India and the launch of the 2+2 format have imbued new dynamism into the bilateral partnership. There might be a few areas of divergence between the two sides but spheres of convergence are much greater.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• December 16, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

The May 8, 2021 India-EU Summit in Portugal is expected to further invigorate and provide a fresh direction to the bilateral relationship, even as both sides grapple with bilateral, regional and global challenges.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• April 07, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

The rapidity and selflessness with which India rolled out millions of doses of vaccines as aid despite the massive requirements of its own vaccination drive, is being particularly appreciated by world leaders and observers.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• January 29, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

Even as Kazakhstan is making slow but steady progress towards further democratisation and openness of its political system, jostling by elites to secure their positions ahead of the ultimate exit of first President Nursultan Nazarbayev from the political scene, is set to grow.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• January 22, 2021 |
• IDSA Comments

Kim will drive the hardest bargain possible and be willing to make only small concessions like maintaining some type of a freeze on future tests of missiles and nuclear weapons.

• Ashok Sajjanhar |
• April 09, 2018 |
• IDSA Comments