Gautam Chikermane is Vice President at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. His areas of research are grand strategy, economics, and foreign policy. He speaks to audiences across the world on the rise of India and global affairs.
Books and Monographs
India’s Grand Strategy: A Framework for the Future that Builds on Bharat’s Ancient Statecraft of Peace, Prosperity, and Planet (ORF, 2024)
A Rising India in the Crossfire of Competing Grand Strategies, Chapter in India’s Foreign Policy and Economic Challenges: Friends, Enemies and Controversies (Springer Nature, 2023)
Reform Nation: From the Constraints of P.V. Narasimha Rao to the Convictions of Narendra Modi (HarperCollins, 2022)
Reading Sri Aurobindo (Penguin Random House, 2022), Co-Editor
Jailed for Doing Business (ORF, 2022), Co-Author
India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation (Penguin, 2021), Editor
70 Policies that Shaped India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion (ORF, 2018)
Tunnel of Varanavat (Rupa, 2016)
The Disrupter: Arvind Kejriwal and the Audacious Rise of the Aam Aadmi (Rupa, 2014)
Five Decades of Decay (Rupa, 1997)
Commentaries
COVID-19 could be Modi’s reform moment
Reservation: India on the edge of a fiscal precipice
Why this new year will tell us if it's time for a new world order
NITI Aayog's strategy document: Status quo on land, labour laws won’t help
Lehman crashed. But India, China and later, USA rose from 2008's debris
India is — and will remain — a growth story in the foreseeable future
India's sweet spot: Our economy is stable, although financial disasters loom across the world
Demonetisation is dead, long live demonetisation
FIFA World Cup 2018: Putting team spirit over individual stardom and other lessons
The zero-poverty destination comes closer
US-Iran Crisis: Time for India to embrace its role as the negotiator?
India's government will birth two major policies before 2019 elections