SWARNA RAJAGOPALAN'S PORTFOLIO

Director, Chaitanya-The Policy Consultancy
Managing Trustee, The Prajnya Trust

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Selected Scholarly Publications and Conference Papers The Dravida Nadu Experience: Security, State-building and Secession from a Peninsular Perspective Security Dimensions of Peninsular India, Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai, India, March 22-23, 2004. "Conceptualizing Security, Securing Women" National Seminar on Challenges to Peace and Security in South Asia: Emerging Trends, University of Madras Department of Defence Studies, Chennai, India, February 19, 2004 "Research, Policy, Reality: Women, Security, South Asia" 6th Sustainable Development Conference, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2003. “Of Militants, Martyrs, Nations and States: Kashmir and Sri Lanka” Swords and Ploughshares, Volume XV / Number 1 / Summer 2003. “Secularism in India: Accepted Principle, Contentious Interpretation” In William Safran, ed., The Secular and the Sacred: Nation, Religion and Politics, Frank Cass, London (2003). "An anatomy of the Sri Lankan Conflict" Sri Lankan Conflict at the Crossroads, Fundacao Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal, June 2002. “Re-building Afghanistan: Lessons from South Asia” Seminar, February 2002. “Internal Unit Demarcation and National Identity” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 5:3-4, Fall and Winter 1999, pp.191-211. “National Integration in India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan: Constitutional and Elite Visions” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Volume 3:4, Winter 1997, pp.1-38.	Media Articles “Sri Lanka: Politics, War and Peace,” National Review, Vol. I No. 3, December 2003. “Ilankai: Amaidhi Thodara India Yenna Cheyya Vendum?” (In Tamil; Translation of "Sri Lanka: Can Peace Be Seized From The Jaws Of Conflict?”) Thisaigal, December 2003. "The Maldives: On the cusp of change?" National Review, Vol. 2, No. 9, September 2004. "Stirrings of change in Maldives," Deccan Herald, October 24, 2004. Subconsciously, Self-consciously Subcontinental The Swarna Rajagopalan Column on Indogram.com Selected Links Towards the turning of the tide A Report Card for March 8th 2005 A Season of Political Change in South Asia Part I: Nepal Part II: Bhutan Part III: Maldives
	Electronic Learning Resources Created Contextualizing the Events of September 11 and Thereafter, September-November 2001. Alliance for Lifelong Learning, Learning Guide on India-Pakistan conflict, January-February 2002. On Events in Gujarat, March 2002. The Iraq Question, February-March 2003. See here also.
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