Sudeep Chakravarti

Sudeep Chakravarti is Executive Director of the Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures at Ahmedabad University, Professor of Practice at the School of Arts and Sciences, and Chair of the university’s Communications Programme.

Sudeep is a longtime observer of South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, particularly foreign policy, geopolitical and geo-economic relations, history, security, and conflict and conflict resolution in South Asia—in particular, in central and northeastern India. He has published nearly one thousand articles and columns on these and other subjects; and several books related to history, ethnography, regional policy and practice, and security.

Sudeep’s books include Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country; Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land; The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community; Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History; The Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s Far East, and Fallen City: The Murder of Geeta and Sanjay Chopra and Delhi’s Descent from Grace. His next book is a biography, Humayun: The Life, Death and Afterlife of an Emperor.