Seema Sirohi is currently based in Washington as a senior journalist specializing in foreign policy. She received her master's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and studied sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. As a journalist, she has covered India–US relations for more than two decades for The Telegraph, Outlook and Anandabazar Patrika. She has reported from various nations around the globe, such as Italy, Israel and Pakistan, and published opinion pieces in The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor and The Baltimore Sun. She was also a commentator with National Public Radio and has appeared on BBC and CNN. Her book, Sita's Curse: Stories of Dowry Victims, was published in 2003. Twitter: @seemasirohi
<p>"Thirty years ago, when veteran journalist Seema Sirohi first arrived in Washington DC, bilateral relations between India and the United States of America were at their worst. In the late 1980s and 1990s, the political spotlight shone favourably upon Pakistan and China. For the leader of the free world, India didn't matter. The years leading up to the twenty-first century saw the US-and the multilateral organizations of which it was a member-force India to jump through endless bureaucratic hoops. India's nuclear tests in 1998 were the final nail in its coffin, as far as the US was concerned.</p><p>Cut to the present, and the curtain has lifted on a dramatically different geopolitical stage. India is no longer the enemy for the US, nor is it sidelined strategically. In an age dominate..."</p>
