With the appointment of Atul Keshap as an ad Am Charge D’Affaires (CDA) Substitute Duta Daniel Smith, the retirement – other people from India Origin (PIO) will be the most visible diplomacy face in New Delhi.
A senior career diplomat who joined US foreign services in 1994, familiar sustways in New Delhi and had previously served at the US Embassy.
He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia in Washington DC.
He served as US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives from 2015 when fellow Richard Richard Rahul America was the US Ambassador to India – both men tracked their roots to Punjab.
Seshap’s father, Kespeople Chander Sen, came from Punjab and was a UN development economist who worked in Nigeria, where Junior Keshap was born.
His mother, Zoe Calvert, worked at US foreign services and he had also served at the US Embassy in Delhi.
“US President Joe Biden has appointed several Indian-Americans to the top position and the appointment of the Uphpassador Kesp, which comes at a critical moment, is a continuation of the same policy,” R.
Dayakar, said a retired Indian diplomat, said.
“This shows a high level of trust that Indian Diaspora members enjoy in America and the visibility they have in the position of the peak government including many in the US State Department.” In Delhi, North American partner Keshap Nadir Patel – Canadian High Commissioner in India since 2015 – also from India.
The last parents immigrated to Canada from Gujarat.
“A person’s Indian roots can be used to get a better understanding of Indian complexity and linguistic diversity and state culture.
That way, he can give someone like me,” Patel said in an interview immediately after presenting his credentials in Delhi.
The former US ambassador to India, Richard Versma, has presented his belief to the President of India on the same day as Patel.
A former US assistant as the Secretary of State for the legislature and lawyer, Verma was chosen by President Barack Obama at the time to head the Indian mission just before a high professional Republican day visit to India.
Verma, now is a general advisor and the head of global public policy in the MasterCard in the US, recalling the story of the typical Indian-American immigrants arrived in New York City in 1963 with only $ 24 and bus tickets to North Iowa.
Harinder Sidhu, a diplomat of a career now deputy secretary in the Grand Service group in the Australian Government Affairs and Trade Department, is a high commissioner in India from 2016 to 2020.
He chose Indian posts on what he considered “India-Australia relations were on high point “.
And despite having a full hand by managing one of the biggest foreign missions in Australia, he found time to explore the family roots and heritage Sikh Punjabi during his duties on the continent of the continental child.
Sidhu, however, is not a high commissioner of Australia from India in Delhi.
Peter Varghese, whose parents immigrated to Kenya first and then Australia from Kerala, arrived in India in 2009 as the top envoy.
Varghese, who took over when there was a racist attack that was widespread against Indian students throughout Australia, had to deal with large-scale media coverage during its first months in India.
And even though he often traveled to Kerala and his ancestral village to be connected with his roots during his term in India, whether India became an asset while dealing with controversial problems is still doubtful.
However, foreign policy experts feel that knocking into the inundation of Indians for diplomatic assignments in India can have several advantages.
“Indian envoys bring them more in cross-cultural empathy and understanding when they come on assignments to India.
The art of understanding diplomatic nuances is usually beneficial to the countries they represent and India,” Feel the Robinder Sachdev, President of the Institute Think Tank Imagindia based in Delhi And one of the US founders of the US political action committee.
Although some Western countries have not sent too many Indian diplomats for high duties in India, others like that as Trinidad & Tobago, South Africa, Kenya, Fiji, Singapore, Malaysia and Maldives have many top diplomats in India for several years , Examples are Nimisha J Madhvani – Uganda Ambassador today for Nordic countries – which are High Commissioner Uganda to India between 2007 and 2014.
Career diplomats themselves, Madhvani is included in the Gujarati business family that stands out in Uganda.