Ratish Mehta is a Senior Research Associate at ORCA. He is the co-editor of the Special Issue on India’s Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia and serves as the co-lead for the project ‘The Episodes of India-China Exchanges: Modern Bridges and Resonant Connections’, which is rooted in the desire to enhance public consciousness of cross-cultural contributions of both societies. Ratish’s area of interest includes understanding the value of Narratives, Rhetoric and Ideology in State and Non-State interactions, deconstructing political narratives in Global Affairs as well as focusing on India’s Foreign Policy interests in the Global South and South Asia. He was previously associated with The Pranab Mukherjee Foundation and has worked on projects such as Indo-Sino relations, History of the Constituent Assembly of India and the Evolution of its Democratic Institutions. He is also the co-convenor of ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology (GCNS), which is India's premier dialogue driven China conference. He is an alumnus of Ambedkar University, Delhi.
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Ratish Mehta
Ratish Mehta is a Senior Research Associate at ORCA. He is the co-editor of the Special Issue on India’s Soft Power Diplomacy in South Asia and serves as the co-lead for the project ‘The Episodes of India-China Exchanges: Modern Bridges and Resonant Connections’, which is rooted in the desire to enhance public consciousness of cross-cultural contributions of both societies. Ratish’s area of interest includes understanding the value of Narratives, Rhetoric and Ideology in State and Non-State interactions, deconstructing political narratives in Global Affairs as well as focusing on India’s Foreign Policy interests in the Global South and South Asia. He was previously associated with The Pranab Mukherjee Foundation and has worked on projects such as Indo-Sino relations, History of the Constituent Assembly of India and the Evolution of its Democratic Institutions. He is also the co-convenor of ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology (GCNS), which is India's premier dialogue driven China conference. He is an alumnus of Ambedkar University, Delhi.