South Asia Monitor

Resource Faculty

Bhaskar, Comm. C. Uday (Retd.)

Director, Society for Policy Studies

Bhattacharjee, Dr. Rupak

Independent Analyst

Bhattacharya, Sanchita

Research Associate, Institute of Conflict Management

Bhaumik, Subir

Journalist and Strategic Affairs Analyst

Dasgupta, Amb. Amit

Former Ambassador

Krishnamurthy, Rajeshwari

Research Officer, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi

Krishnaswami, Dr Sridhar

Senior Journalist, Head, Departments of Journalism and Mass Communications and International Relations, SRM University, Chennai.

Malik, Preet

Former Ambassador

Moorthy, N. Sathiya

Director, Chennai Chapter, Observer Research Foundation.

Padmaja G.

Independent Analyst

Saxena, Chayanika

Teaching Fellow, Ashoka University, New Delhi

Shende, Rajendra

Chairman, TERRE Policy Center, Paris and former Director, UNEP.

Singh, BinodKumar

Research Associate, Institute of Conflict Management, New Delhi

Soti, Divya Kumar

Independent National Security and Strategic Affairs Analyst.

Tremblay, Reeta

Professor, University of Victoria

Ved, Mahendra

Columnist and Analyst.

Verma, Jai Kumar

Strategic Analyst, formerly with Cabinet Secretariat, Delhi

Contributing Articles to South Asia Monitor

Diplomat Speak

Now our relations are excellent: Sri Lankan HC

A career diplomat, Chitranganee Wagiswara, High Commissioner of Sri Lanka, is the first woman to be the island nation’s envoy to India. As Foreign Secretary, she was Sri Lanka’s top diplomat for 18 months before being posted to New Delhi.

In The News

India: Security Council ignoring terrorists, terror-backers in Afghanistan

India has accused the United Nations Security Council and the international community of tending to ignore the terrorists ravaging Afghanistan and their backers while these forces “have stood up against one of the biggest collective military efforts in the world.”

Video Gallery

Trump, climate change and India

SAMosa Blogs

Canada-India collaboration in healthcare

Close Canada-India collaboration in health and wellness is a journey that commenced in 2015 in Toronto, when the first major health summit was held, and ended in March 2017 in New Delhi.

Open Forum

India has to save yoga from its shallow, soulless imitations

With weird concoction like "Beer Yoga" getting popular as the next big international fitness craze, the ancient art of inner blossoming is seemingly going topsy-turvy. And as yoga hogs the limelight on its third International Day, the loud call for saving the spirit of the ancient and modern practice can't be swept under

Kashmir Watch

J-K cop lynching: Should police complement the Army or serve the people?

The death of deputy superintendent Mohammed Ayub Pandith at the hands of a lynch mob highlights the dangers to the police in Kashmir today, whether from gun-wielding militants or locals disgruntled with the Indian State.

China Factor

Why China’s growing footprint in Nepal is a concern for India

Sher Bahadur Deuba has been elected Prime Minister of Nepal at an especially fragile time in the life of the 11-year-old Himalayan republic.

Asia Watch

Game of thrones: On the crown prince of Saudi Arabia

The rapid rise of Mohammed bin Salman, from one among many princes in the al-Saud royal family to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia within a span of two years, is an unprecedented development in the history of the Kingdom.

Global Watch

A US-Russia stand-off in Syria will have dangerous global implications

A United States fighter downed a Syrian military aircraft for the first time when it bombed a Syrian rebel faction backed by Washington.

Documents

Asia Society paper on US ties with India

Books

Reporting from Pakistan: Adventures in a mirror-image land?...

Title: Reporting Pakistan; Author: Meena Menon; Publisher: Viking/Penguin Random House; Pages: 340; Price: Rs 599

Three reasons behind poverty in India

A former Indian civil servant, who is currently a professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University, US spent long periods in distant villages and city slums of India. The result? A scholarly book that presen...

From Tora Bora to Abbottabad: The strange history of Bin Laden's 'wander years'...

Title: The Exile; Author: Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; Pages: 640; Price: Rs 699

Corbett National Park – Domain of the Wild

Jim Corbett was a British-Indian hunter and tracker-turned-conservationist, author and naturalist; who started off as an officer in the British army and attained the rank of a colonel. Frequently called in to kill man-eating tigers or leopards,...

Bollywood: A window to India's rising soft power

Title: Bollywood Boom; Author: Roopa Swaminathan; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 221

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