CurriculumVitae

A review of Michael Davis’ Making Hong Kong China: The Rollback of Human Rights and the Rule of Law, published in International Affairs (March 2021), London, UK.

“The Group of Twenty”, a review of Andrew Cooper & Ramesh Thakur’s The Group of Twenty (G20), published in India Quarterly (September 2013), New Delhi, India.

“Aetiology of Violence”, a review of Patricia Daley’s Gender and Genocide in Burundi: The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region, published in South Bulletin (July 16 2008), Geneva, Switzerland.

“The Disposable People”, a review of Julie Peteet’s Landscape of Hope and Despair. Palestinian Refugee Camps, published in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (March 2006).

“Beyond Administering Misery”, a review of Arthur C. Helton’s The Price of Indifference. Refugees and Humanitarian Action in the New Century,published in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (October 2002).

“Struggles of the Invisible Refugees”, a review of M.Vincent & B.R.Sorensen (ed.) Caught Between Borders: Response Strategies of the Internally Displaced, published in Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (September 2002).

“The Missile Man Remembers”, a review of AP.J.Abdul Kalam’s Wings of Fire. An Autobiography, published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (December 2001), Armidale, Australia.

“Indian and Pakistani Nukespeak: Identity Assertion Against the ‘Other’”, a review of Haider K.Nizamani’s The Roots of Rhetoric: Politics of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan, published in Contemporary South Asia (July 2001), Bradford, UK.

“Dr.Strangelove of Iraq”, a review of S.Bhatia and D.McGrory’s Brighter than the Baghdad Sun: Saddam’s Race to Build the Bomb, published in Infomanage International (September 2000), London, UK.

Invited by the Sushma Swaraj Foreign Service Institute to train Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officers (Annually)

Invited by the Defence Services Staff College to address Indian and foreign armed forces (Annually)

Invited by the National Defence College to address Indian and foreign armed forces (Annually)

Invited by College of Defence Management to address Indian and foreign armed forces (2021)

Invited by the Government of Iran to attend preparations for the NAM Summit in Tehran, Iran (2012)

Invited by the Government of Mexico to attend preparations for the G-20 Heads of Government Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico (2012)

Book on Narendra Modi’s foreign policy named in Top 10 Books of 2016 by The Globalist (2016)

Awarded the first ever B. Raman Fellowship for Geopolitical Analysis by the Takshashila Institution, a networked strategic affairs think tank based in Chennai (2011-’12)

Received University Gold Medal for B.A. History Honours, Delhi University (1999)

Received National Merit Scholarship, Government of India, for “extraordinary academic and co-curricular activities” at the Intermediate level (1994)

Received Prakasam Memorial Prize, A.K.C.Junior College, Rajahmundry for topping college in political science (1995)

Secured I Rank in all-Andhra Pradesh entrance to Intermediate Politics, Economics and Commerce (1993)

Secured III Rank in All-India entrance test for MA Program in International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (1998)