Gautam Chikermane is a Vice President at ORF. His areas of research are economics, politics and foreign policy.
A Jefferson Fellow (Fall 2001) at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Gautam has written eight books:
- 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)
- Jailed for Doing Business (ORF, 2022)
- India 2030: The Rise of a Rajasic Nation (Penguin, 2021)
- 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