Culture, Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy for India
Articulating culture for India's Viksit Bharat dreams!
Over the years, drawing my own stint as the Director of Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Bengaluru and my own 'backburner' passion for intercultural and cross cultural diplomacy, I have been tracking the Culture space. This section carries some of my content and writings in this space.
Towards India’s ‘Purusharthas’: Rethinking Culture as Strategy in India’s Civilizational Diplomacy
India today occupies a rare and historically significant position in the global order. It is simultaneously a rising economic power, a demographic force, a digital society, and one of the world’s oldest surviving civilizations. Yet despite this extraordinary inheritance, India continues to approach culture in a fragmented and limited manner. In policy circles, culture is still largely understood as an appendage to diplomacy rather than diplomacy itself. It is treated as an accessory to statecraft rather than as a strategic framework capable of shaping geopolitical influence, institutional partnerships, economic ecosystems, and intellectual legitimacy.