
The author, a noted analyst and commentator, is a former editor of the
Hindustan Times, The Economic Times and
The Financial Express, and a former information adviser to the prime minister of India. He is the author of several books including,
The Perilous Road to the Market: The Political Economy of Reform in Russia, India and China, and
Kashmir 1947: The Origins of a Dispute, and a regular columnist with several leading publications.