Professor Anant V. Narlikar
Anant V. Narlikar (Ph.D. Cantab, Sc.D. Cantab) has over fifty years of research and writing experience in the field of superconductivity. For almost three decades, he headed the Superconductivity Division at the National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi.
He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, and is associated as Visiting Scientist with the Applied Superconductivity and Cryoscience Group, Department of Material Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, and also with the Physics Department, Hamburg University. His latest publications include (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Small Superconductors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Email: narlikar@yahoo.com
Dr Aruna Narlikar
Aruna Narlikar holds a doctoral degree in Indian Writing in English and has cultivated a long-standing expertise in Sanskrit, particularly the Mahabharata. She has worked as a columnist and freelance journalist in the top Indian broadsheets in English, including The Times of India and The Hindustan Times, and also writes frequently for the vernacular press in Marathi and Hindi.
She is also an artist, and has exhibited her paintings in solo and group shows in different countries. She has experience of over ten years in anchoring programs on Indian culture and art on national Indian television. Her recent works include a collection of poems in Hindi (with her own illustrations), Jhilmilate Indradhanush, published by Shree Sarvottam Prakashan in November 2017.
Email: arunanarlikar@yahoo.com
Dr Amrita Narlikar
Dr Amrita Narlikar’s research expertise lies in the areas of international negotiation, World Trade Organization, multilateralism, and India’s foreign policy & strategic thought.
Amrita is non-resident Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. She is also Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge and non-resident Distinguished Fellow at the Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne. Amrita served as the President of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) from 2014 to 2024, and simultaneously held a full (W3) Professorship in International Relations at Hamburg University. Prior to moving to Germany, Amrita taught at the University of Cambridge, where she was a fully tenured “Reader” in International Political Economy (regularized to “Professor” under the university’s internationally aligned system).
She read for her M.Phil. and D.Phil. at Balliol, Oxford, and also held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John’s College, Oxford.
Some of Amrita’s books include (co-authored with Aruna Narlikar and Amitabh Mattoo) Strategic Choices, Ethical Dilemmas: Stories from the Mahabharat, Penguin Random House, 2023; (guest-edited with Daniel Drezner) The How Not To Guide for International Relations, International Affairs, Centenary Special Issue, September 2022; Poverty Narratives and Power Paradoxes in International Trade Negotiations and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2020; and (co-authored with Aruna Narlikar) Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharat, Oxford University Press, 2014.