Product Manager for Citizen Journalist Digital at CNN-IBN https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/anika-gupta/rss en Civil Society Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs Human Rights Religious & Ethnic Groups Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Anika Gupta https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/03/the-deep-read-how-the-worlds-largest-democracy-is-handling-the-syria-issue https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2013/05/03/the-deep-read-how-the-worlds-largest-democracy-is-handling-the-syria-issue NEW DELHI / More than 3,000 miles separate New Delhi and Damascus, but for Indian diplomats, the two-year-old crisis in Syria must feel much closer. For India, the global community’s sharp debates over Syria have less to do with Syria – India and Syria enjoy a casual rapport – and more to do with the fragile network of allegiances and interests that India has built over the past decades, now being tested by new international pressures.