Latest on BW | My interview with The Diplomat...and our own podcast?

Some exciting updates.

Hello all!

Hope you are keeping well. I hope March – or its Ides – have spared you.

Work, a family wedding and health have kept me preoccupied over the last few weeks. I’m going to turn thirty soon, and it almost feels like March 2023 has portended, sometimes not in a good way, what awaits me in the fourth decade of my existence.

Meanwhile, on March 20, The Diplomat published an interview with me on India’s policy towards post-coup Myanmar. I took the opportunity to talk about how I see New Delhi’s current approach to the junta and democratic resistance next door, and what I think it should do differently.

Because of copyright issues, I cannot reproduce the whole interview in my newsletter. But, you may read it here.

I also want to thank The Diplomat’s South Asia editor, Sudha Ramachandran, for interviewing me, and asking the right questions.

I welcome your comments, questions and general feedback.

Let me also take this opportunity to reveal that very soon, Barbed Wires will have its own podcast! It will simultaneously be available on other popular audio platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and the likes.

If you like listening to folks like me ramble on about geopolitics, politics and society while you walk, run, drive, cook or just lie down doing nothing, then do keep an eye out for BW Podcasts.

Before I leave you, here’s a small Twitter thread I just posted on a lesser-known aspect of the Ledo – also known as Stilwell – Road, built by the Allied forces during World War II as their primary supply route from Assam to southeast China through Burma.

Angshuman Choudhury @angshuman_ch

There’s always been so much talk about the ‘Ledo Road’ — also known as the ‘Stilwell Road’ — that was built by the Allies during WWII as their main supply route from #Assam to #Burma. But, hardly anyone talks about how it was mostly built by African American soldiers. (1/3)

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