Happymon Jacob is the Founder and Director of the Council for Strategic and Defence Research (CSDR), and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR. Before this, he spent seventeen years on the faculty of Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he built a reputation as a scholar unafraid to go where the questions lead, including onto both sides of the Line of Control in Kashmir. He is the editor of India’s World, India’s first dedicated foreign policy magazine, and a regular columnist for Hindustan Times.