Research Fellow, IDSA, Dr S. Kalyanaraman was invited to deliver a talk on ‘India and the Asian Order’ at Delhi University on March 12, 2012. The audience comprised the faculty and students of the University’s Department of East Asian Studies. In his talk, Dr Kalyanaraman detailed the crucial role that the China factor has played in the evolution, since independence, of India’s approach to structuring the regional order in Asia.