BJP leader Ram Madhav to deliver a talk on Look East, Act East...

​Hyderabad: BJP national general secretary V Ram Madhav would deliver a talk titled ‘Look East, act East, what next?’ at Satya Sai Nigamagamam near Srinagar Colony on July 24.

The talk would enlighten participants about the role of great democratic quadrilateral of India, Japan, Australia and the US in ensuring peace and sharing prosperity in Asia-Pacific region and presenting a framework for greater Indian engagement in the region.

Ram Madhav, who is the founding-director of India Foundation, played a key role in recent times in building up India-East Asia relations and has been instrumental in founding a University of Buddhist Indic Studies in Gaya, Bihar.

Look East, an important post-cold war foreign policy initiative that signaled a major paradigm shift in India’s perspective of the world, helps to achieve economic integration and security cooperation with the countries of South East Asia.

Ram Madhav would explain why deeper economic, institutional and security relations with Asia Pacific countries are important for India, whether diplomatic and economic engagement with Asia Pacific help in counter-balancing China’s maritime advances like the Nine-dash line, String of Pearls or naval adventurism in South China Sea,

whether India can play a greater strategic role in the region given the swiftly changing security dynamics and whether it can counter-balance growing Chinese presence in Indian Ocean by building strategic convergence with Japan, Philippines and Vietnam.

EFLU vice-chancellor Prof Sunaina Singh would preside over the programme. Awareness in Action, a social organisation, is holding the talk.