Renowned Indian Scholar Sudheendra Kulkarni Visits the ICC

On 27 March 2025, Sudheendra Kulkarni, a renowned Indian scholar and former advisor to the Indian Prime Minister, visited the International Cooperation Center (ICC). Zhang Yu, Convener of the Joint Meeting and Director of the Steering Committee of the ICC, met with Kulkarni. The two sides discussed issues from a strategic and long-term perspective, including improving and developing bilateral relations between China and India and safeguarding the common interests of the "Global South". They exchanged in-depth views on regional and international situations of mutual concern and reached important consensus.

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Sudheendra Kulkarni, an Indian social and political activist and renowned scholar. He has held various positions including the National Secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Secretary of former Vice Prime Minister and BJP President Lal Krishna Advani, the advisor to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and the Director of the Ji Xianlin Center for Indian-China Studies at University of Mumbai, the Chairman of the Observer Research Foundation, and the Chairman of the Forum for A New South Asia  of India. Kulkarni graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). In the early stage of his political career, he joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and later joined the BJP in 1996. From 1998 to 2004, he served in the office of the Prime Minister of India, serving as the advisor to then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.