After retiring as Indian ambassador to Turkey ( and Azerbaijan ) in 1996 I took to journalism in Ankara and shifted to Bucharest in early 1998.
My articles have appeared in India in major English language newspapers ( and in a dozen major regional newspapers in India as syndicated writer ), like Hindustan Times, Asian Age, Pioneer in Delhi , Telegraph, Calcutta etc ,and in Dubai- Khaleej Times , Gulf Today ,Beirut –Daily Star ,and Ankara, Turkish daily News , Zaman etc
But during last 30 months I have written 60 in depth articles between 3000 to 5000 words for Atimes on line , Hong Kong and another 90 for South Asian Analysis Group , a New Delhi based think tank . They are used as reference articles by diplomats and defence training institutes in India , Turkey and here and by many professors , journalists and business consultants in USA and elsewhere . Normally my articles are quoted /copied /hosted from a few score to 100 websites . These include in USA left-wing web sites like the Z-mag , Salon.com, right-wing web sites like Free Republic, many universities like New York, Columbia, California, Colorado, Utah ,think tanks , anti war and alternate websites and news papers like CSM and in other western countries, London Economist regularly (country briefing) and others, Kurdish , Armenian, Greek and Serbian websites , Israel , Turkish , Central , South and East Asia , Africa including most of the Islamic world from Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria and Indonesia to Morocco.
The articles have been translated into a dozen major west European, Middle eastern and East Asian languages ( and 10 Indian regional languages).
I have delivered lectures covering Turkey, Central Asia, Middle East, Military in Politics ,Pakistan , Globalisation and Balkans etc at India International Centre ,Institute of Defence and Strategic Analyses ,Foreign Service Institute , Jawahar Lal Nehru University ,Indian Council of World affairs ,India Habitat Centre etc in New Delhi and at Aligarh university ,Ahmedabad Management Association etc (At the universities of Bukhara, Samarkand, Tashkent, Andijan etc in 1998). Also at cultural centres in Berlin and Bucharest. I have also been an expert commentator on Middle East , Turkey, Islam for Indian Star News and Sahara TV programs when in Delhi. BBC Hindi service interviews me here regularly for their Radio programs.
I was posted as Ambassador in Bucharest in 1981-84 .Other posts as Ambassador were in Senegal (1978-82 ) and Jordan (1989-92 - During the first Gulf war) .Other posts done were in Cairo (1962-64), Algiers (1964-65) , Ankara (1969-73) , Paris (1973-75).I served in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in various capacities and established its Diplomats Training Institute in 1987-89.I attended National Defence College , New Delhi in 1976 and was Chairman/Managing Director Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd in 1985 and 1986. I know, apart from English and few Indian languages , French, Turkish and Arabic.
While establishing the Diplomats Training Institute, after reading all about the history of political violence , I had designed a week long training module on political violence and terrorism and how to handle crisis situations caused by hijackings, hostage taking etc .
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