Thanks so much to the wonderful teams at Kubernein Initiative and GermanForeignOffice for having me in Berlin this week to talk about gender and climate change in the Indo-Pacific and opportunities for 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇦🇺. To learn more you can read my policy brief with Bec Strating kuberneininitiative.com/article/reimag…

How is a plane that is not fully functioning even allowed to operate! This is not a one off! Everyday one hears of a story like this, and you've messed up the perfectly good Vistara in the process. Ridiculous Air India
Roster fewer flights till all planes are fixed!

Always great to see Kate Clayton representing La Trobe Asia on the global stage but particularly great to see this in collab with Kubernein Initiative and Ambika Vishwanath 🇮🇳, our Maitri fellow joining us later in the year!

Following a Roundtable Dialogue in partnership with GermanForeignOffice, we are excited to share our latest policy brief on trade and economic cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, & the need for adopting a gender lens to catalyse inclusive trade.
Read here: tinyurl.com/yck94cym

Sometimes the gems....🙄

See what made its way to Germany!

So excited to dive into this Bec Strating Joanne Wallis 😀

Ian Hall Centre for Australia-India Relations Hopefully the new fellows program will be one step in changing this! A lot more insight is needed in both countries from both sides for sure but given what I've seen with some of other India partnerships, this is already way ahead of the curve!

Urbanization alone is responsible for 60% of the warming trend in Indian cities.

— It's not just climate change.

Study by Vinoj @ IIT-Bhuvaneshwar:
nature.com/articles/s4428…

Nature India highlight:
nature.com/articles/d4415…

Just disgusting! They should be disbarred and jailed. What about the police who tampered with evidence and the judge who gave bail? Everyone needs to be held accountable!

Difference between 1996 and post-2021 is govt actions:
1. Gave shelter to thousands of fleeing Afghans, leaders vs. Cancellation of all visas
2. No embassy in Kabul vs Embassy open, diplo exchanges with Taliban
3. Support to Northern Alliance vs no support to anti-Taliban groups

Calling all Indian men....please to be taking over all cooking duties since y'all are better at it, why you wanna eat bad food, we'll happily use our time for other things such as doing nothing. Better not burn those rotis...
mkay thanks!
- most Indian women!

Breaking the Mould : Our non-fiction next meet-up is here!

Join fellow readers to discuss this important read by Raghuram Rajan and @rohlambaon 16 June.

Free. Virtual. Open to everyone who reads the book.

Sign up here: forms.gle/dtvCJNGZfqjxxT…… #BookTwitter #Meetup

Uff...mad reflexes!

Ambika Vishwanath 🇮🇳 and sanya saroha detail the non-traditional #security threats facing #SouthAsia and the implications of climate change for transboundary rivers and geopolitics. They argue that water issues are likely to become a #threat multiplier, and without flexible and

But but...Foreign interference in domestic issues...

Sad and shameful!

Looking forward to working on India-Australia Climate & Security and exploring collaborative options for the two countries, bilaterally & in the Indo-Pacific, on this Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade 🇦🇺 Centre for Australia-India Relations funded Fellowship, starting September at La Trobe Asia

Australian Consulate General, Mumbai Philip Green OAM

Agreed. The Vieled Rebecca in the Salar Jung museum is stunning! Seen it several times.and it's always been a favorite

1863 by Giovanni Benzoni

Ahh expect to see this line pop up now everywhere!

++ his essay sob story of his reform and learning will get him into a 'prestigious' fancy foreign Uni with some bullshit scholarship