Soumya Shankar

Soumya Shankar is working for the ABC News' investigative unit and teaches multimedia journalism at Stony Brook University. She graduated with an M.A. in political journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism. Previously, she worked for five years on the national political beat for Catch News and Newsclick, based in New Delhi.

TOPIC: INDIA

India at the UN: Thorny Questions for the Ambassador

September 28, 2018

by Soumya Shankar

Now was supposed to be the first thaw in relations between Pakistan and India after talks have been stalled since 2016. But Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan recently tweeted about India’s “arrogant and negative response . . . to my call for resumption of the peace dialogue,” hours after India retracted its position …