Diplomats as Authors
Books by IFS Officers
A N D Haskar
Subhasitavali and other booksTales from the Panchatantra (NBT, 1992)The Shattered Thigh & Other Plays (Penguin, 1993 & 2008)Tales of the Ten Princes (Penguin, 1995 & 2008)Glimpses of Sanskrit Literature (ed.) (ICCR, 1995)Hitopadesa (Penguin, 1998 & 2006)Simhasana Dvatrimsika (Penguin, 1998 & 2006)Shuka Saptati (HarperCollins, 2000 & Rupta 2009A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry (ed) (ICCR 2002)Jatakamala (HarperCollins, 2003)Madhav & Karna (Roli Books, 2006)Subhashitavali (Penguin, 2007)Kama Sutra (Penguin, 2011 & 13Three Satires from Ancient Kashmir (Penguin 2011)The Seduction of Shiva (Penguin, 2014)
Abhay K.
River Valley to Silicon Valley. V Put of Rechnol Dolini (Russian), Enigmatic Love, fallen Leaves of Autumn, Art life of St. Petersburg(Russian), Candling the Light Remains, Seduction of Delhi(forthcoming)River Valley to Silicon Valley, 10 Questions of the Soul, Colours of Soul: Art life of St. Petersburg
Achal Malhotra
Prehistoric Mythological and Legendary Links SRI LANKA-INDIA
Aftab Seth
Pillars of a Landscape
Ajay P. Nazreth
Gandhi’s outstanding Leadership
Ajay M. Gondane
The Arrival
Amarendra Dhatua
Nine collections of poetry
Amb. D’ Souza
MEA Propertiesq
Amit Dasgupta
The Divine Peacock
Arun Kumar Sahu
Short stores and columne in Oriya
Arvind Gupta
From Lenio to Gorvachev
Atul Ghotsurve
FAQ UPSC’s Civil Services Exam
B K Nehru
Nice Guys Finish Second
B N C Nayar or Mohana Chandran
Many Books
B S Prakash
Clueless in California,
Sounding silly in silicon valley
Badruddin Tyabji
Memoirs of an Egoist
Balkrishna Shetty
What is Mathematics?
Bhaswati Mukherjee
Arms Race in outer space: A Third World Perspective
C B Muthamma
Slain by the System
C M Bhandari
Saving Angkor, Journey to Heaven: Kaliash Mansarovar & Yoga Shakti
C S Dasgupta
War and Diplomacy in Kashmir
C S Jha
From Bandung to Tashkent
C V Ranganathan
India and China: The way Ahead (Co-authored with Vind Khanna)
Chinmaya R Gharekhan
The Horseshoe Table
Dr. Karan Singh
Towards a new India and other 12 books
Dyaneshwar Mulay
Jonald, a collection of poems (Marathi)
Mati Pankh Aanri Aakash (Marathi),
Door Rahlla Gaon (Marathi),
Rity Ug Rahi Hai (Hindi).
Ander Ek Assmann (Urdu),
Comparative study of Modern Marathi and Japanese Poetry
G. Parthasarathy
Diplomatic Divide (co-author)
Gauri Shankar Gupta
Mongolia-The land of blue skies,
Droplet – A collection of English Poetry,
Chand Lamhe – A collection of Hindi Poetry,
Unavailing Mysteries of life - Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom
H V S Manral
Ghost Stores from Kumaon & Garhwal Hills
Harsh Bhasin
The Big Three – The emerging relationship between the US, India & China in the changing world order
I J Bahadur Singh
Indians in the Caribbean,
Indians in south Asia, Indians in South East Asia,
Other India: The Overseas Indians and Their Relationship with Us,
The Great Ascent: The Landless Poor in Southeast Asia
J C Sharma
Temples of Chamapa in Vietnam and Hindu Temples in Vietnam
J N Dixit
Self in Autumn- Collection of poems and other (-10) books
Jordana D. Pavel
Broken Sands
FK B Fabian
Commonsense on war in Iraq 2003
Diplomacy: Indian Style 2012
K Natwar Singh
Nine Books
K M Panikkar
In two Chinas: memoirs of a diplomats,
Asia and Western Dominance,
India and the Indian Ocean and A Survey of Indian
History and others
K P S Menon
Delhi Chunking,
Russian Panorama,
Playing Tokyo,
Twilight in China,
The flying Troika,
The lamp and the lamp stand.
A dictionary of Kathakali,
C. Sankaran Nair Journey Round the world,
Russia revisited,
Memories and musings, many worlds many worlds revisited
K R Narayanan
Images and insights,
Nehru and his vision & India and America
K Srinivas
Jamdani Revolution
K V Rajan
The Ambassadors Club (edit)
Kiran Doshi
Birds of Passage and Diplomatic Tales
Kishan S Rana
Inside Diplomacy, 21st Century Ambassador,
Asian Diplomacy,
Bilateral Diplomacy Managing Corporate Culture
Madhup Mohta
Samay, Sapna Aur Tum (Poetry)
M Sridharan
Chinese language, an Introduction,
Translation of Chinese Poetry: Vaari Choodinum
Paarppavar Illai: Kavi thogai – Chinaavin ;Sanga IIakkiyam
M K Rasgotra
The New Asian Power Dynamics (ed.)
Mani Shankar Aiyyar
Confession of a Secular Fundamentalist and other four books
Manju Seth
The fifty Element (Poetry Collection
N Parthasarthy
The Reluctant Assassin
Navdeep Suri
The Watchmaker, A life incomplete (English translation s of the classic Punjabi novels of his grandfather Nanak Singh
Navtej Sarna
We were not lovers like that,
The Exile,
Folk Tales of Poland,
The Book of Nanak Zafarnama,
Savage Harvest (Trans.)
Winter Evenings – A collection of short stores
Nina Sibal
Dongs of Justice,
Secret life of Gujjar Mal,
Yatra
Nirupama Rao
Rain Rising : Poetry Collection
P V Joshi
Saga of Hinduism
Pawan K. Varma
Ghalib and his times,
The great Indian middle class,
Being Indian,
Where loss is gain and other books
Pooja Kapoor
Comparative Government and Politics: Concepts & Currents Trends (Co-author)
Pradeep Kapur
Ta Prohm: A Glorious Era in Angkor Civilization (Co-author) India of My Dream (Co-edited)
Pratap Singh
Sahnti Majusha – collection of poems
Prem K Budhwar
A Diplomat Reveals
R Vishawanathan
Malgudi to Macondo – The Journey of an Innocent Indian through Seductive Latin America
Rajiv Dogra
Almost an Ambassador,
Footprints in foreign sands
Romesh Bhandari
As I saw it
Sangeeta Bahadur
The Kaal Trilogy
Santosh Kumar
In the National Interest: A strategic Foreign Policy for India,
Chhitaktey Quark – A collection of poems in Hindi
Skand Tyal
India and republic of Korea: Engaged Democracies
Subhakanta Behera
Oriya story and poetry collections
Subimal Dutt
With Nehru in the Foreign Office
Sudarshan Bhutani
A clash of Political cultures: Sino-Indian Relations 1957-60
Sudhir Devare
India and Southeast Asia: towards Security Convergence.
A new Energy Frontier: the Bay of Bengal region,
Delhi Dialogue III : Beyond the First Twenty Years of India-ASEAN engagement (edt), India
Emerging China: Prospects for partnership in Asia (edt).
Suja Menon
Ixora: Consistently Inconsistent & other poems
Sumit Seth
Joys of Male Sexuality ( Co-author)
Review of forensic Medicine
Surendra Kumar
Legends of Indian Cinema, Kokila (Novel),
Sirf Sipahi (Collection of poems in Hindi).
In the Minds of the maestros,
5 India of My Dreams (edt),
Beyond diplomatic dilemmas (a memoir)
T N Kaul
Recollections and Reflections,
Life in a Himalayan Hamlet,
My years through Raj and Swaraj and A Diplomat’s Diary
T P Sreenivasan
Words, Words ,
Words- Adventures in Diplomacy & Encounters,
Mattering to India
T S Tirumurthy
Chennaivassi,
Clive Avenue,
Kissing the Diplomacy & Encounters,
Mattering to India
Clive Avenue (Novel)
V. Ashok
Dasavatar: Ten Incarnations of Vishnu
Veena Sikri
India and Malaysia: intertwined Strands
Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The Evolution of India and The Scope of Happiness
Vikas Swarup
Q & A and Six suspects,
The Accidental Appearance
Vinod Khanna
The Ramayana in Indonesia (co-authored with Malini Saran)
Y D Gudevla
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A N D Haskar
Subhasitavali and other booksTales from the Panchatantra (NBT, 1992)The Shattered Thigh & Other Plays (Penguin, 1993 & 2008)Tales of the Ten Princes (Penguin, 1995 & 2008)Glimpses of Sanskrit Literature (ed.) (ICCR, 1995)Hitopadesa (Penguin, 1998 & 2006)Simhasana Dvatrimsika (Penguin, 1998 & 2006)Shuka Saptati (HarperCollins, 2000 & Rupta 2009A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry (ed) (ICCR 2002)Jatakamala (HarperCollins, 2003)Madhav & Karna (Roli Books, 2006)Subhashitavali (Penguin, 2007)Kama Sutra (Penguin, 2011 & 13Three Satires from Ancient Kashmir (Penguin 2011)The Seduction of Shiva (Penguin, 2014)
Abhay K.
River Valley to Silicon Valley. V Put of Rechnol Dolini (Russian), Enigmatic Love, fallen Leaves of Autumn, Art life of St. Petersburg(Russian), Candling the Light Remains, Seduction of Delhi(forthcoming)River Valley to Silicon Valley, 10 Questions of the Soul, Colours of Soul: Art life of St. Petersburg
Achal Malhotra
Prehistoric Mythological and Legendary Links SRI LANKA-INDIA
Aftab Seth
Pillars of a Landscape
Ajay P. Nazreth
Gandhi’s outstanding Leadership
Ajay M. Gondane
The Arrival
Amarendra Dhatua
Nine collections of poetry
Amb. D’ Souza
MEA Propertiesq
Amit Dasgupta
The Divine Peacock
Arun Kumar Sahu
Short stores and columne in Oriya
Arvind Gupta
From Lenio to Gorvachev
Atul Ghotsurve
FAQ UPSC’s Civil Services Exam
B K Nehru
Nice Guys Finish Second
B N C Nayar or Mohana Chandran
Many Books
B S Prakash
Clueless in California,
Sounding silly in silicon valley
Badruddin Tyabji
Memoirs of an Egoist
Balkrishna Shetty
What is Mathematics?
Bhaswati Mukherjee
Arms Race in outer space: A Third World Perspective
C B Muthamma
Slain by the System
C M Bhandari
Saving Angkor, Journey to Heaven: Kaliash Mansarovar & Yoga Shakti
C S Dasgupta
War and Diplomacy in Kashmir
C S Jha
From Bandung to Tashkent
C V Ranganathan
India and China: The way Ahead (Co-authored with Vind Khanna)
Chinmaya R Gharekhan
The Horseshoe Table
Dr. Karan Singh
Towards a new India and other 12 books
Dyaneshwar Mulay
Jonald, a collection of poems (Marathi)
Mati Pankh Aanri Aakash (Marathi),
Door Rahlla Gaon (Marathi),
Rity Ug Rahi Hai (Hindi).
Ander Ek Assmann (Urdu),
Comparative study of Modern Marathi and Japanese Poetry
G. Parthasarathy
Diplomatic Divide (co-author)
Gauri Shankar Gupta
Mongolia-The land of blue skies,
Droplet – A collection of English Poetry,
Chand Lamhe – A collection of Hindi Poetry,
Unavailing Mysteries of life - Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom
H V S Manral
Ghost Stores from Kumaon & Garhwal Hills
Harsh Bhasin
The Big Three – The emerging relationship between the US, India & China in the changing world order
I J Bahadur Singh
Indians in the Caribbean,
Indians in south Asia, Indians in South East Asia,
Other India: The Overseas Indians and Their Relationship with Us,
The Great Ascent: The Landless Poor in Southeast Asia
J C Sharma
Temples of Chamapa in Vietnam and Hindu Temples in Vietnam
J N Dixit
Self in Autumn- Collection of poems and other (-10) books
Jordana D. Pavel
Broken Sands
FK B Fabian
Commonsense on war in Iraq 2003
Diplomacy: Indian Style 2012
K Natwar Singh
Nine Books
K M Panikkar
In two Chinas: memoirs of a diplomats,
Asia and Western Dominance,
India and the Indian Ocean and A Survey of Indian
History and others
K P S Menon
Delhi Chunking,
Russian Panorama,
Playing Tokyo,
Twilight in China,
The flying Troika,
The lamp and the lamp stand.
A dictionary of Kathakali,
C. Sankaran Nair Journey Round the world,
Russia revisited,
Memories and musings, many worlds many worlds revisited
K R Narayanan
Images and insights,
Nehru and his vision & India and America
K Srinivas
Jamdani Revolution
K V Rajan
The Ambassadors Club (edit)
Kiran Doshi
Birds of Passage and Diplomatic Tales
Kishan S Rana
Inside Diplomacy, 21st Century Ambassador,
Asian Diplomacy,
Bilateral Diplomacy Managing Corporate Culture
Madhup Mohta
Samay, Sapna Aur Tum (Poetry)
M Sridharan
Chinese language, an Introduction,
Translation of Chinese Poetry: Vaari Choodinum
Paarppavar Illai: Kavi thogai – Chinaavin ;Sanga IIakkiyam
M K Rasgotra
The New Asian Power Dynamics (ed.)
Mani Shankar Aiyyar
Confession of a Secular Fundamentalist and other four books
Manju Seth
The fifty Element (Poetry Collection
N Parthasarthy
The Reluctant Assassin
Navdeep Suri
The Watchmaker, A life incomplete (English translation s of the classic Punjabi novels of his grandfather Nanak Singh
Navtej Sarna
We were not lovers like that,
The Exile,
Folk Tales of Poland,
The Book of Nanak Zafarnama,
Savage Harvest (Trans.)
Winter Evenings – A collection of short stores
Nina Sibal
Dongs of Justice,
Secret life of Gujjar Mal,
Yatra
Nirupama Rao
Rain Rising : Poetry Collection
P V Joshi
Saga of Hinduism
Pawan K. Varma
Ghalib and his times,
The great Indian middle class,
Being Indian,
Where loss is gain and other books
Pooja Kapoor
Comparative Government and Politics: Concepts & Currents Trends (Co-author)
Pradeep Kapur
Ta Prohm: A Glorious Era in Angkor Civilization (Co-author) India of My Dream (Co-edited)
Pratap Singh
Sahnti Majusha – collection of poems
Prem K Budhwar
A Diplomat Reveals
R Vishawanathan
Malgudi to Macondo – The Journey of an Innocent Indian through Seductive Latin America
Rajiv Dogra
Almost an Ambassador,
Footprints in foreign sands
Romesh Bhandari
As I saw it
Sangeeta Bahadur
The Kaal Trilogy
Santosh Kumar
In the National Interest: A strategic Foreign Policy for India,
Chhitaktey Quark – A collection of poems in Hindi
Skand Tyal
India and republic of Korea: Engaged Democracies
Subhakanta Behera
Oriya story and poetry collections
Subimal Dutt
With Nehru in the Foreign Office
Sudarshan Bhutani
A clash of Political cultures: Sino-Indian Relations 1957-60
Sudhir Devare
India and Southeast Asia: towards Security Convergence.
A new Energy Frontier: the Bay of Bengal region,
Delhi Dialogue III : Beyond the First Twenty Years of India-ASEAN engagement (edt), India
Emerging China: Prospects for partnership in Asia (edt).
Suja Menon
Ixora: Consistently Inconsistent & other poems
Sumit Seth
Joys of Male Sexuality ( Co-author)
Review of forensic Medicine
Surendra Kumar
Legends of Indian Cinema, Kokila (Novel),
Sirf Sipahi (Collection of poems in Hindi).
In the Minds of the maestros,
5 India of My Dreams (edt),
Beyond diplomatic dilemmas (a memoir)
T N Kaul
Recollections and Reflections,
Life in a Himalayan Hamlet,
My years through Raj and Swaraj and A Diplomat’s Diary
T P Sreenivasan
Words, Words ,
Words- Adventures in Diplomacy & Encounters,
Mattering to India
T S Tirumurthy
Chennaivassi,
Clive Avenue,
Kissing the Diplomacy & Encounters,
Mattering to India
Clive Avenue (Novel)
V. Ashok
Dasavatar: Ten Incarnations of Vishnu
Veena Sikri
India and Malaysia: intertwined Strands
Vijaya Laxmi Pandit
The Evolution of India and The Scope of Happiness
Vikas Swarup
Q & A and Six suspects,
The Accidental Appearance
Vinod Khanna
The Ramayana in Indonesia (co-authored with Malini Saran)
Y D Gudevla
Out of Archives
Photo Feature: Click here