Dr Amit Gupta wears many hats. Currently a Senior Adviser to the Forum of Federations, Ottawa, he has served as senior faculty and Visiting Fellow at top-notch institutions like the USAF Air War College Alabama and Sandia National Labs, to name just a few, and his areas of expertise and interest span global security, conflicts, popular culture, politics and sports.
In New Delhi to deliver talks at think tanks like the Center for Land Warfare Studies and the Observer Research Foundation, he took time out to talk to StratNews Global on the lessons for India from the conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia, and why New Delhi needs to be careful while choosing partners for its Atmanirbhar projects.
Noting that modern wars are incredibly expensive and long-drawn, he recommends a stockpile of at least six months worth of strategic munitions.
In a career spanning three decades and counting, Ramananda (Ram to his friends) has been the foreign editor of The Telegraph, Outlook Magazine and the New Indian Express. He helped set up rediff.com’s editorial operations in San Jose and New York, helmed sify.com, and was the founder editor of India.com.
His work has featured in national and international publications like the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, Global Times and Ashahi Shimbun. But his one constant over all these years, he says, has been the attempt to understand rising India’s place in the world.
He can rustle up a mean salad, his oil-less pepper chicken is to die for, and all it takes is some beer and rhythm and blues to rock his soul.
Talk to him about foreign and strategic affairs, media, South Asia, China, and of course India.
