What to Expect in Post-Election India

Journalist and policy expert Pramit Pal Chaudhuri will assess India’s successes and shortcomings of the past decade and analyze how this spring’s general election is likely to affect India’s economic and foreign policy landscape. Drawing on decades of insider national security expertise, Chaudhuri brings a unique perspective to the discussion of post-election India. Carnegie’s Frederic Grare will moderate.

PRAMIT PAL CHAUDHURI

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is foreign editor of the Hindustan Times, based in New Delhi, and has been with the paper since 2000. He wrote about international politics and economic issues for the Telegraph and the Statesman newspapers in Calcutta from 1985 to 2000. He is serving his second two-year term on the National Security Advisory Board to the prime minister of India, and has represented India in numerous Track II dialogues, including with the United States, China, Israel, and Japan.

FREDERIC GRARE

Frederic Grare is senior associate and director of Carnegie’s South Asia Program. He works on India’s Look East policy, on Afghanistan and Pakistan’s regional policies, and on the tension between stability and democratization, including civil-military relations, in Pakistan.

ABOUT THE SOUTH ASIA PROGRAM
The Carnegie South Asia Program informs policy debates relating to the region’s security, economy, and political development. From the war in Afghanistan to Pakistan’s internal dynamics to U.S. engagement with India, the Program’s renowned team of experts offer in-depth analysis derived from their unique access to the people and places defining South Asia’s most critical challenges.

EVENT DETAILS
DATE: Wednesday, April 9, 2014
TIME: 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
LOCATION: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
SPEAKER: Pramit Pal Chaudhuri
MODERATOR: Frederic Grare
CONTACT: Molly Pallman
+1 202 939 2292 | mpallman@ceip.org