Gautam Chikermane

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)