Swagato Ganguly

Swagato Ganguly is Senior Fellow at The Convergence Foundation and was a CASI Spring 2022 Visiting Fellow. He obtained his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998, and has worked since then on editorial pages of Indian newspapers, commenting on national politics and international affairs. He was Editorial Page Editor of The Times of India from 2009-21. His contemporary research interests lie in strategic affairs, geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region, and India’s economic development. His two most recent books are: (as author) Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India: Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment, Routledge, 2018 and (as anthology editor) Destined to Fight?: India and Pakistan 1990-2017, Times Group Books, 2017. His research while at CASI focused on the geopolitical triangle between India, China, and the United States in the Indo-Pacific region.