Tishya Khillare

‘Tishya Khillare is a Fellow at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research where she leads the programme on Inclusive Foreign and Security Policy. As a Feminist International Relations scholar, Khillare brings over 10 years of research experience in gender based analysis. She enjoys researching, writing and working on Women Peace and Security and Feminist […]

D S Hooda

Lt. Gen, Hooda was commissioned into the 4th Battalion of the 4th Gorkha Riftes in 1976. Between 2012 to 2016, he was stationed in Jammu and Kashmir and retired as the Army Commander of Northern Command in 2016. In 2019, he authored a comprehensive National Security Strategy document. Today, he is one of India’s foremost […]

Happymon Jacob

Happymon Jacob is a strategic affairs scholar and public intellectual. He 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 […]

Sukanya Sharma

Sukanya Sharma is an Editorial Associate at INDIA’S WORLD magazine, where she weaponises a keen eye for detail and a passion for storytelling. With a personal motto to “wing it,” Sukanya embraces the art of improvisation, trusting in creativity and spontaneity to guide the way.

Shashi Tharoor 

 Shashi Tharoor, a fourth-term Member of Parliament for ‘Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-six books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India. In 2019, Tharoor was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category […]

Rajat Kathuria

Rajat Kathuria is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence. He is the former Director and Chief Executive of the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). He worked with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India during its initial years.  […]