Bharat Karnad is an emeritus professor in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, Delhi and a national security expert. He is the author of ‘India’s Nuclear Policy’ (Praeger, 2008), ‘Nuclear Weapons and Indian Security: The Realist Foundations of Strategy’ (Macmillan India, 2002, 2005) and author-editor of ‘Future Imperiled: India’s Security in the 1990s and Beyond’ (Viking-Penguin India, 1994). His latest books include ‘Why India is not a Great Power (Yet)’ published by Oxford University Press in 2015 and ‘Staggering Forward: Narendra Modi and India’s Global Ambition’ published by Penguin India in 2018.