Delhi and Director in the India-Sri Lanka Foundation.He is also presently Visiting Professor in the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies and a member of the Executive Committee of the Centre for Air Power Studies in New Delhi.He is on the Panel of Experts from India for Track 2 Dialogue with ASEAN. His main areas of interest are developments in India's neighbourhood and issues of economic integration, energy and national security and terrorism. He currently writes an influential column in "The Pioneer", "Business Line" and "Rediff.com", mostly on foreign affairs.