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Our speaker Dr. Stanly Johny for ORCA's Global Conference on New Sinology 2025

Dr. Stanly Johny

Dr. Stanly Johny

International Affairs Editor, The Hindu, India

Stanly Johny is the International Affairs Editor with The Hindu. A PhD in international studies from the Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi, he has been writing on geopolitics and Indian foreign policy for over a decade, and has reported from different parts of the world. He is a Visiting Professor at KREA University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, an adjunct faculty member at Asian College of Journalism (ACJ), Chennai, and a Visiting Fellow at Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. He is the author of The ISIS Caliphate: From Syria to the Doorsteps of India (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia (HarperCollins, 2024), and co-author of The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics (HarperCollins, 2022).