Atul Keshap

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diplomat still heading into work bc the national interest cannot wait

Nepal it seems now has World’s Youngest Government Leaders in Power!! Most of the Ministers are in 30s and 40s. Only Finance Minister is above 50. The new Government in Nepal is led by 36 year old @ShahBalen as the Prime Minister.

I will stop using “as much chance as of snow in Chennai” in my conversations.

Leave it to Fareed to come up with one of his headline grabbing, superficial historical analogies. Britian was an imperialist power which subjugated people all over Asia.

The deplorable state TATA inherited air India in can never be overstated. VT-ALL’s history tells you everything about state ownership, cannibalised and grounded TATA deserves at least a decade to turn everything around and anyone already writing them off is a complete idiot

I'll bet dollars to donuts there is a heck of a lot more shock in Beijing at the success of US/Israeli operations than this article, only quoting Chinese factotums, suggests. It will be similar to the Chinese complete overhaul of strategy and command after Gulf War I. China’s military has been studying Trump’s war on Iran for lessons that could prove helpful in any future conflict of its own bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

If you think about, Sri Lanka has been through so many Black Swan events recently, nonstop Easter Sunday 2019 Pandemic after that Total economic collapse 2022 Aragalaya and now downstream consequences of the US-Iran war No wonder so many of us feel exhausted

NEW: Following the embarrassing lapses of Unit 29155, the GRU created a new, bespoke assassination and sabotage unit known as Center 795, meant to be "air-gapped" against compromise. Its top operative, Denis Alimov, is now in a jail cell in Colombia awaiting extradition to the U.S. because he used Google Translate to task his Serbian hitman. The FBI had everything in real time. And we've just burned the rest of Putin's brand new black ops squad. theins.press/en/inv/290235

Friendly reminder: S̶t̶r̶a̶i̶t̶s̶ of Hormuz -> Strait of Hormuz Taiwan S̶t̶r̶a̶i̶t̶s̶ -> Taiwan Strait Malacca S̶t̶r̶a̶i̶t̶s̶ -> Malacca Strait

“Get them to join the foreign service. Then make them spend most of their career in capital.”

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U.S.-India Business Council (@USIBC) posts, "It was an honor for the U.S.-India Business Council Board Delegation to meet with U.S. Ambassador Sergio Gor and receive his congratulations on our Council's Golden Jubilee 50th anniversary. Our Board was grateful for his strong commitment to further strengthening the India–U.S. partnership. We look forward to our continuing friendship and shared effort to take business relations to new heights."

they got promoted from second secretary to first secretary

when diplomat returns to MFA after brief and unsuccessful stint in private sector

govt calculating how much to spend on diplomacy

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Hosted a warm reception at home tonight with dear friends from India, the diplomatic community, business leaders and partners from the US. Amid our nations' renewed trade framework and deepening strategic ties, the real magic happens in these personal moments—where trust, ideas, and shared futures spark. A special thank you to @DrSJaishankar @PiyushGoyal and over 75 Ambassadors who attended. Here's to the boundless potential between India & America! 🇮🇳🤝🇺🇸

Just last year the United States and India signed a 10 year defense pact which will significantly deepen our Defense Partnership. Joint exercises will continue, additional sales are in progress. This is a strong relationship! Thank you for hosting us Defence Secretary Rajesh Kumar Singh.

@RajeshlovesU2 @Dicker_JJ Diplomacy definitely wrung the joy out of me...! 😇

@Dicker_JJ @atulkeshap I was about to send that to @atulkeshap

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