On August 24, Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia, Distinguished Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Gateway House, was a panelist for the discussion ‘Reviving BIMSTEC and the Bay of Bengal Community’ hosted by Brookings India. Ambassador Rajiv Bhatia stressed that the real test of BIMSTEC being a successful summit would be its continued relevance in the long term, and emphasized that the initiative requires support across the government spectrum and not just from the Ministry of External Affairs.