Dr. Kona Swapna Nayudu

IR researcher (Yale-NUS College & Harvard University)

”As a historian of India in the Cold War, the period only also makes sense to me as one of widespread and intense decolonisation, both in terms of actual shifts in ruling power but also in terms of political culture as consumed and experienced globally. Especially the years of the early Cold War have so much to offer as a backdrop to founding of Asian and African nations, that the Cold War to me is a fascinating lens from which to study the making of modern India, as much as India is a lens to understand the Cold War differently than is the norm.”