Brief Concept: The Roundtable will take a look at the current crisis in Myanmar with a special focus on policy imperatives from India and engagement with a view on Myanmar’s Western seaboard, the Bay of Bengal and India’s North east. The event is strictly per Chatham House rules and by invitation.

Part-A

• Welcome and Introduction to the theme: Sabyasachi Dutta, ED Asian Confluence

• Brief Welcome by Shri MP Bezbaruah, Chairman, Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Presentation: Perspectives from the Western Myanmar Seaboard

• Brief Q/A

Part B  Indian Policy Imperatives (Close door roundatble)

• Chair: Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Amb. to Myanmar & Member Governing Council, Asian Confluence

List of Discussants: (Arranged Alphabetically)

• Lt. Gen. Arvinder Lamba, Former Vice-Chief, Indian Army, & Member, Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Dr. Cchavi Vasisht, Associate Fellow, Chintan Research Foundation

• Amb. Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, former Amb. to Japan & Member Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Dr. Monish Tourangbam, Director, KIIPS

• Shri. MP Bezbaruah, Chairman, Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Ms. Ophelia Yumlembam, Junior Research Associate, ORCA

• Amb. Pankaj Saran, Convenor, NatStrat

• Amb. Rajiv Bhatia, former Amb. to Myanmar & Member Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Ms. Rami Niranjan Desai, Distinguished Fellow, India Foundation

• Amb. Riva Ganguly Das, former Secretary East, MEA & Member Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Mr. Sabyasachi Dutta, Executive Director, Asian Confluence

• Ms. Shakuntala Gamlin, former Chief Secretary, Arunachal Pradesh & Member, Governing Council, Asian Confluence

• Prof. Shrabana Barua, Associate Professor and Director, Nehginpao Kipgen Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Jindal School of International Affairs

• Dr. Sripathi Narayanan, Research Fellow, ICWA