Diplomacy is the name of a game of subtle initiatives and responses between sovereign nations. Of late New Delhi has become an arena of proactive diplomacy. It is reflected in the number of missions and the foreign media professionals operating from Indian capital. There are visible but more inconspicuous efforts made by India and the rest of the world in order to reach out to each other. Om Gupta has tried to capture those signals flying all the times in the diplomatic circles. This book is not a structured or chronicled history of contemporary history. But then any history is the subjective statement made with the help of consciously picked up events and players. The present volume may appear to be loosely tied beads of a rosary but when you count them they give the complete big picture that bears testimony to the times which it reflects upon and also outlines the roadmap that was being drawn. It will make an interesting reading for students, journalists and practitioners of diplomacy and also prove to be a useful reference material.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Om Gupta
Om Gupta has been a media professional since 1969. Most of this duration, he has been a student of international affairs. He has studied for M.Phil and Ph.D at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He has studied Spanish language at the Ministry of Defence school in New Delhi and taught the same language to MBA students at Rai University, where he was Dean, Media and Communication in 2004-05. He has co-eidted two prestigious volumes G-15: Potential and Possibilities, Pan Media, New Delhi, sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India and Latin America in the Emerging World Order (B.R. Publishers, 2000, bulk-purchased by External Publicity Division of the MEA). He contributed a regular column Demarch in Mid-day, New Delhi from 1992-97 (It forms a large part of this book). He was the founder editor of a monthly journal Indo-Latin American File from 1992-2002. it was circulated in Latin America through our missions in that region. He organized 16 seminars in India International Centre from 1993 to 2000 on Indo-Latin American Affairs. He was invited by President Shanker Dayal Sharma and Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao in 1995 to Latin America, Africa and Europe on high level state visits as an observer of Latin American Affairs. He is on the regular invite list of Rashtrapati Bhawan for State banquets and at Homes on Republic and Independence Days. He has been invited to speak on Latin American affairs by Banaras Hindu University, School of Foreign Languages, Ministry of Defence, Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan. Om Gupta, at presently is the Dean, Jagannath Institute of Communication and Design, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi.
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