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ORF FACULTY
	Dr. C. Raja Mohan Head - Strategic Studies & Distinguished Fellow	Mr. Vikram Sood Vice President, ORF - Centre for International Relations

	Mr. Mohan Guruswamy Distinguished Fellow	Gen. Nirbhay Sharma Distinguished Fellow

	Amb. H H S Viswanathan Distinguished Fellow	Prof. K.V. Kesavan Distinguished Fellow

	Mr. Manoj Joshi Distinguished Fellow	Amb. Swashpawan Singh Distinguished Fellow

	Dr. Vivek Lall Distinguished Fellow	Mr. Ashok Dhar Distinguished Fellow

	Ms. Lydia Powell Head, Centre for Resources Management	Mr. Nandan Unnikrishnan Vice President

	Mr. Wilson John Vice President	Dr. Sergey Kurginyan Visiting Distinguished Fellow

	Prof. Amitabh Mattoo Visiting Distinguished Fellow	Dr. Rajan Gupta Senior Visiting Fellow

	Mr. Rohit Bansal Visiting Fellow	Dr. S. Paul Kapur Visiting Fellow

	Mr. Manohar Thyagaraj Visiting Fellow	Mr. Mahendra Kumawat Distinguished Visitor

	Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh Programme Coordinator	Mr. Saurabh Johri Program Advisor

	Mr. Uma Shankar Sharma General Manager	Dr. Siddharth Shanker Saxena Visiting Senior Fellow

	Ms. Jayshree Sengupta Senior Fellow	Prof. Rakesh Basant Senior Fellow

	Dr. Rajeswari Rajagoplan Senior Fellow	Dr. Satish Misra Senior Fellow

	Dr. Niranjan Sahoo Senior Fellow	Dr. P K Ghosh Senior Fellow

	Dr. Rumi Aijaz Senior Fellow	Dr. Geethanjali Nataraj Senior Fellow

	Dr. K. Yhome Fellow	Mr. Shantanu Guha Ray Fellow

	Ms. Mahima Kaul Fellow	Dr. Joyeeta Bhattacharjee Associate Fellow

	Mr. Rakesh Kumar Sinha Associate Fellow	Ms. Akanshya Shah Associate Fellow

	Mr. Ashish Gupta Associate Fellow	Mr. Siba Prasada Tripathy Associate Fellow

	Ms. Rebecca Alison George Associate Fellow	Dr. Uma Purushothaman Associate Fellow

	Mr. Monish Tourangbam Associate Fellow	Mr. Aryaman Bhatnagar Associate Fellow

	Mr. Abhijit Iyer Mitra Program Coordinator	Ms. Medha Chaturvedi Associate Fellow

	Ms. Nishtha Gautam Associate Fellow	Mr. Akhilesh Sati Program Manager

	Mr. Rahul Prakash Junior Fellow	Ms. Sonali Mittra Junior Fellow

	Ms. Koushiki Mukherjee Junior Fellow	Ms. Tanoubi Ngangom Junior Fellow

	Mr. Daniel Rubin Henry Luce Fellow	Mr. James Tyson Fulbright Fellow

	Mr. Shahid Raheem Senior Media Researcher	Mr. Avinash Paliwal Visiting Fellow

	Mr. Manish Vaid Research Assistant	Mr. Vinod Kumar Research Assistant

	Mr. Samya Chatterjee Tomar Research Assistant	Mr. Arvind K John Research Assistant

	Mr. Dinesh Kumar Madhrey Research Assistant	Mr. Kartikeya Khanna Research Assistant

	Ms. Anahita Mathai Research Assistant	Ms. Rishika Chauhan Research Assistant

	Mr. Satish Kumar Data Analyst	Mr. Rohit Sinha Tezaa Research Intern

	Ms. Kanchi Gupta Research Intern	Ms. Darshana Research Intern

	Ms. Arpita Roy Baruah Research Intern	Mr. Pavan Kumar Research Intern

	Ms. Reena Sehgal Korada Research Intern	Ms. Pragati Rai Research Intern

PUBLICATIONS
	Ms. Anshu John Editor

DEVELOPMENT OUTREACH AND COMMUNICATIONS
	Mr. Samir Saran Sr. Fellow & Vice President	Mr. Vidyadharan M. P. Additional Director - Communications

	Ms. Antje Uhlig Senior Fellow	Mr. Vivan Sharan Associate Fellow

	Ms. Sadhavi Chauhan Associate Fellow	Mr. Vijay Seth Assistant Manager - Events


LIBRARY
	Ms. Nisha Verma Librarian	Ms. Shubha Gupta Audio Visual Documentation Officer

ORF - CHENNAI CHAPTER
	Mr. N. Sathiyamoorthy Director-Chennai Chapter

ORF - MUMBAI CHAPTER
	Mr. Vivek P. Karandikar Vice President - CRM	Dr. R. Swaminathan Visiting Fellow

	Dr. Leena Chandran Wadia Senior Fellow	Ms. Radha Viswanathan Fellow and Editor

	Mr. Gautam Kirtane Fellow	Mr. Rammohan Shrikant Khanapurkar Fellow

	Ms. Maansi Parpiani Fellow	Ms. Sana N Ghazi Fellow

	Ms. Shruti Mahajan Deorah Fellow	Ms. Aparna Sivakumar Fellow

	Mr. Rishi Aggarwal Fellow	Mr. Priyam Gandhi Fellow

	Ms. Prithvi Hirani Fellow	Mr. Anay Joglekar Associate Fellow

	Ms. Rachel D'Silva Associate Fellow	Ms. Janki Nirmal Pandya Associate Fellow

	Ms. Payal Tiwari Associate Fellow	Ms. Karishma A Makeshwar Associate Fellow

	Mr. Sumedh Madhav Kulkarni Programme Coordinator	Ms. Priya R Jadhav Research Assistant

ORF - KOLKATA CHAPTER
	Mr. Rakhahari Chatterji Advisor	Brig. Deepak Sinha (Retd) Consultant

	Ms. Pratnashree Basu Research Assistant	Ms. Swagata Saha Research Assistant

	Mr. Mihir Bhonsle Research Assistant


Events


(BY INVITATION ONLY) Talk by 'Afghanistan's Changing Situation ? Humanitarian Challenges' Wednesday, 22 May 2013 (11:30 AM To 1:00 PM) Venue: ORF Delhi (BY INVITATION ONLY) Lecture Discussion on 'The Future of Afghanistan Post-2014: Implications for India' Saturday, 25 May 2013 (11:00 AM To 1:30 PM) Venue: ORF Kolkata (BY INVITATION ONLY) Talk on 'Computational Analysis of Terrorist Groups: Lashkar-e-Taiba' by Dr. VS Subrahmanian. Monday, 27 May 2013 (11:30 AM To 1:00 PM) Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall (BY INVITATION ONLY) Roundtable Discussion on 'India, Australia and the Indian Ocean Region: Stability and Security' Wednesday, 29 May 2013 (9:30 AM To 5:30 PM) Venue: Hotel Park Hyatt, Chennai (BY INVITATION ONLY) Conference on 'EU as a Security Actor in Asia' 26-27 September 2013 (10:00 AM To 6:00 PM) Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall (BY INVITATION ONLY) Meeting on 'Internal project planning meetings between PRIO, Norway and ORF staff ' 6-7 November 2013 (10:00 AM To 5:00 PM) Venue: ORF-Delhi (BY INVITATION ONLY) Conference on 'Asian Forum on Global Governance' 10-20 November 2013 (10:00 AM To 6:00 PM) Venue: The Oberoi, New Delhi (BY INVITATION ONLY) 'ORF-Stanley Dialogue ' 10-20 November 2013 (10:00 AM To 5:00 PM) Venue: ORF-Delhi, Conference Hall

Energy/Coal/Power

India's Dash for Cheap Gas

14 May 2013

Lydia Powell

India's dash for cheap gas from the Atlantic Basin began in 2011 when GAIL, Petronet and other companies rushed to sign long term LNG supply pacts with producers in the USA. First GAIL signed a 20 year contract to buy 3.5 mtpa of LNG from Cheniere Energy beginning in 2017.

Royalty Linked Compensation: End of Doctored Accounts?

14 May 2013

Ashish Gupta

The recent suggestion from a panel headed by Mr. Kalyan Banerjee, a Lok Sabha Member from Trinamool Congress that in coal and lignite mining, the compensation for displaced people must be linked with the royalty paid by miners during the fiscal year instead of 26% of the net profits that has been suggested earlier.

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International

Li's India visit may be a memorable one

17 May 2013

T.V. Rajeswar

China's Blue Book sees the US as a pivot to Asia and strengthening of alliances in the region is viewed by the Chinese analyst as being directed to contain China.

New opportunities for India-US collaboration in Afghanistan

17 May 2013

Daniel Rubin

The NATO drawdown from Afghanistan presents new opportunities for long-term collaboration between the US and India.

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National

TV media as the new mom and dad

14 May 2013

Maansi Parpiani

It was not a big surprise that the Bill that came into force as the 'The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013' on April 3 retained the age of consent at 18, taking away from the teenagers the right to make their sexual choices;

Even after 20 years, Decentralisation still remains a challenge

04 May 2013

Niranjan Sahoo

Mere constitutional creation of new political space would not become the answer to the growing demands for inclusion and participation in the countryside.

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Security

North Korean imbroglio: Who can do what?

16 April 2013

Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

While on the surface, both the US (and South Korea and Japan) and China appear to have the goal of seeing a stable Korean Peninsula, there appear to be serious differences about what regional stability means.

ATT implementation remains questionable

06 April 2013

Rahul Prakash

The ATT has finally been adopted. But it remains to be seen if the treaty could really be implemented as major players like China, India, Russia have not favoured it.

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Pakistan

Sino-Pak alliance: Naval and nuclear cooperation

18 May 2013

C. Raja Mohan

The unrealistic expectations in India from Li Keqiang's visit to Delhi and Mumbai next week are likely to be tempered when weighed against the Chinese premier's agenda in Pakistan.

Sharif must strike against ISI fast and hard

14 May 2013

Manoj Joshi

The one thing Nawaz Sharief should do on day one is to issue an order placing the ISI under civilian leadership. This will de-fang the Army of the most potent instrument it uses to distort Pakistani democracy.

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