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Gaddam Dharmendra is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1990 and served in various capacities in Indian Missions across the world and at the Ministry of External Affairs, South Block. His overseas assignments include stints at Indian Missions in Tehran, Dushanbe, Washington D.C., and Dhaka.
He also served as India's consul general to Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR, as high commissioner to the Republic of Zambia and as ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran. At Headquarters, he headed the Disarmament and International Security Affairs Division and later the Policy Planning and Research Division.
He retired from the IFS in July 2024 having served as dean of the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service.
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In this episode of Interpreting India, host Saheb Singh Chadha engages in an in-depth conversation with Gaddam Dharmendra, a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India, on the evolving dynamics in Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime. They explore the implications of this political transition on Syria's domestic politics, regional players like Iran, Turkey, and Israel, and global powers including Russia, China, and the United States. The discussion also touches upon India’s strategic interests in Syria and the broader region as it navigates a rapidly changing West Asian geopolitical landscape
Carnegie India is hosting a zoom webinar on the conflict in West Asia.
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- Navdeep Suri,
- Deepika Saraswat,
- Kabir Taneja,
- Gaddam Dharmendra
An Israeli response to Iran’s October 1 attack is imminent. The key question is of its intensity and potential fallout, both within Iran, in terms of nuclear security policy changes, and across the broader region. The coming days are likely to reshape West Asia irreversibly.
Carnegie India hosted Gaddam Dharmendra for an expert briefing on West Asia and Iran’s military and diplomatic strategy in the region. The discussion was moderated by Rudra Chaudhuri.
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