CPPR – Centre for Strategic Studies will be organising a talk on ‘India’s Strategic Outlook in the Modi Era’ by R Prasannan, Chief of THE WEEK’s New Delhi bureau.

The session will be held on 11th December 2015, from 5.00 pm onward at CPPR office.

R Prasannan is a postgraduate in Defence Studies and has been a journalist for the last 30 years. He has been writing on Defence and National Security, Foreign Policy, Politics, Law, Constitutional Affairs, Science, and Current Affairs for THE WEEK and MALAYALA MANORAMA for the last 23 years from Delhi. He has travelled widely around the world, reporting from conflict zones – the Kargil war, the Siachen conflict, Afghanistan during the anti-Taliban war following 9/11, the anti-Taliban war in Pakistan’s Swat valley. He was recently in Tibet covering the political developments in the region. He has also travelled extensively through Russia during the post-Soviet political strife, through the Maldives during the Constitution-making period, through Pakistan during the several elections in that country, and has covered major diplomatic events like Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, the Nuclear deal in Washington, & Commonwealth, Non-Aligned and BRICS summits in various world capitals.

Prasannan has also a special interest in Ancient History and Archaeology, on which he has written extensively in English and Malayalam.

He is currently posted as Chief of THE WEEK’s New Delhi bureau, and also writes a popular column in THE WEEK called “PMO Beat”.