The articles by the following eminent writers, present a deep insight into the problems in J&K .
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A. K. Verma
A. K. Verma is a former Secretary of Govt. of India and can be reached at naluverma@yahoo.com. Arindam Banerji, the author of this article, took the usual route of going from the IITs, through a Ph.D in the US, to finally working in sundry research labs. Currently, he is a scientist of some repute, the kind whose ideas actually get used by people, and an entrepreneur, with not much success. Some day, he'll go back to India, but for now, as time permits, he is a writer and political thinker on South Asian geo-political issues. After retiring from the B K Birla Group, Arvind Lavakare, the well-known sports commentator, has turned his attention to politics and national issues . B. Raman served as an Additional Secretary (now retired from service), at the level of Cabinet Secretariat with the Govt. of India. Presently he is the Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and convenor, Advisory Committee, Observer Research Foundation, Chennai. E-mail: corde@vsnl.com He also writes at http://www.saag.org Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, is a strategic-affairs expert. His columns appear at rediff.com . Claude Arpi is a noted Tibetologist and Sinologist, specialising in the India-China-Tibet relationships of the 1940"s and 50"s. His book " The Fate of Tibet " translated into French, is a great record of the fate of the Tibetans in tibet under China and her relationship with India. he is also the creator of ' The Pavilion Of Tibetian Culture ' in Auroville. He currently lives in Auroville, India. Gopalaswami Parthasarathy retired from the Indian Foreign Service in May 2000 after a long and distinguished career. He served as India's ambassador/high commissioner to Burma, Australia and Pakistan and at Indian missions in Washington, Moscow, Dar es Salaam and Karachi earlier. In Delhi he served as the spokesman at the ministry of external affairs and as information adviser to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi. Currently a visiting professor at the Centre for Policy Research, he contributes a regular column on foreign policy to rediff.com . Gopalji Malviya is a Professor at the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Madras University, Chennai. He is also a writer, and one of the founding members of Center for Security Analysis - Chennai. He was the governer of Jammu and Kashmir twice. A writer, historian, JagMohan is presently a member of the Cabinet of Ministers. He is a senior fellow at Observer Research Foundation and a columnist with ThePioneer. Kittu Reddy has conducted workshops for the Indian Army, Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force. W Lawrence S Prabhakar is a Professor of Political Science at Madras Christian College, Chennai. He is also a writer, and one of the founding members of Center for Security Analysis - Chennai. M K Narayanan retired as the Director of Intelligence Bureau of India and is one of the founding members of Center for Security Analysis - Chennai. Pranawa C. Deshmukh is the 'Convener, CIFJKINDIA' and Coordinator for the Jammu and Kashmir Project, India Awareness Foundation (IAF) - previously - Bharat Awareness Forum (BAF), Atlanta. Rajeev Srinivasan works in sales and marketing in the software industry. He spends his time in the US and India. He graduated from IIT Madras and the Stanford Business School. Rajeev Srinivasan considers San Francisco and Kerala his two homes. His columns also appear in Rediff on the Net and The Sunday Observer. He writes on Indian & American perspectives on national policies Saisuresh Sivaswamy - Managing Editor, India Abroad (a rediff publication) Saisuresh Sivaswamy began his journalistic career at the Times group in 1985, first at the Times of India, before moving on to the Evening News, and then to The Illustrated Weekly of India. After senior editorial assignments at Onlooker, The Indian Post and Mid-Day, he founded the Bombay Tribune and later established the Express Newsline in Bombay. In between, he also held a senior position at Plus Channel, as associate editor of Business Baatein, and worked for a television software company producing programmes on Star TV. Sandhya Jain is an eminent columnist in the mainstream Indian news media. Stephen has written "The Secret Teachings of the Vedas," "The Universal Path to Enlightenment," "The Vedic Prophecies: A New Look into the Future," and "How the Universe was Created and Our Purpose In It." Other books he has written include "Toward World Peace: Seeing the Unity Between Us All," as well as "The Key to Real Happiness" and "Proof of Vedic Culture's Global Existence." More info at http://www.stephen-knapp.com/ Dr. Subhash Kapila is an International Relations and Strategic Affairs analyst. He can be reached on e-mail for discussion at esdecom@vsnl.com . He writes for Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies and at http://www.saag.org |
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