India: The Way Ahead

Pran Chopra was born in 1921 in Lahore, where he joined the newspaper “Civil and Military Gazette” in 1941. Since then he has been Chief News Editor, All India Radio, War Correspondent for AIR in China, Vietnam, and elsewhere in South-East Asia, Guest Commentator with the United Nations, Resident Editor of the Statesman in Delhi and then Deputy Editor and Chief Editor of the Statesman group in Delhi and Calcutta, Editorial Director of the Press Foundation of Asia, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, where he is now Member of the Advisory Council. He has written, edited, and contributed to over a dozen books. He is also a Lok Sabha Fellow for writing a book on India’s experience of federalism.