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“At the same time, it must be recognised that you are graduating in a period of unprecedented change. Three examples stand out in this decade in terms of challenges: the Covid pandemic, conflicts and climate change. Each of them has impacted our daily lives to an unimaginable degree."
EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister S Jaishankar said on Saturday that “everything today is being leveraged, if not actually weaponized”, as he spoke about the world facing challenges.
The remark assumes significance as India is facing the impact of the war in West Asia, and an energy crisis is looming due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Speaking at the convocation ceremony of IIM Raipur, Jaishankar said, “At the same time, it must be recognised that you are graduating in a period of unprecedented change. Three examples stand out in this decade in terms of challenges: the Covid pandemic, conflicts and climate change. Each of them has impacted our daily lives to an unimaginable degree. The pandemic, in fact, transformed the very manner in which we worked and we lived, holding its own lessons. As for conflicts, their impact on even distant societies have been profound, a testimony to how deep globalisation has now become. Where climate change is concerned, the growing frequency of extreme climate events and the steady erosion of our natural habitat pose both short and long-term concerns.”
Shubhajit Roy, Diplomatic Editor at The Indian Express, has been a journalist for more than 25 years now. Roy joined The Indian Express in October 2003 and has been reporting on foreign affairs for more than 17 years now. Based in Delhi, he has also led the National government and political bureau at The Indian Express in Delhi — a team of reporters who cover the national government and politics for the newspaper. He has got the Ramnath Goenka Journalism award for Excellence in Journalism ‘2016. He got this award for his coverage of the Holey Bakery attack in Dhaka and its aftermath. He also got the IIMCAA Award for the Journalist of the Year, 2022, (Jury’s special mention) for his coverage of the fall of Kabul in August 2021 — he was one of the few Indian journalists in Kabul and the only mainstream newspaper to have covered the Taliban’s capture of power in mid-August, 2021. ... Read More
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