The five states in the Central Asian regions, those of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrghystan and Tajikistan, have emerged as the energy frontier as they are rich in energy resources—in oil and gas and hydropower. The book views the concern of the countries to establish their leverage in energy issues with global and regional players as also the challenges they face such as need for diversification of means to transport oil and gas. It discusses the energy security issues for India and Central Asia. Experts including ambassadors and bureaucrats study India’s energy links with Central Asia and the impact of pipeline politics with the larger global scenario in view. They call for comprehensive engagement between India and Central Asia and the question of factoring Russia into Indo-Central Asia energy diplomacy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rashmi Doraiswamy
Dr. Rashmi Doraiswamy studied Russian Language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her doctoral dissertation was on Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher of culture. She is currently Associate Professor at the Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia and is working on Central Asia. Her writings on litetature and cinema have appeared in prestigious publications in India and abroad. Her entry on ‘Literarture and Film (India)’ has appeared in the ‘Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Literatures’ (Routledge, 2005). She was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the Tadjik Filmmakers’ Union in 1991 for the promotion of Tadjik Cinema. She also won the National Award for the Best Writing on Cinema in 1995. She is co-editor of the book ‘Being and Becoming: The Cinemas of Asia’ (Macmillan,2002).
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