SAPANA Scholars [Title of Papers and Brief Profiles]

1. S. K. Mohanty
"Emergence of South Asia as a Global Force in the New Millennium--
Reviewing the Past and Looking to the Future"
Mr. Mohanty is Researcher at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS), New Delhi.

2. Amir Ullah Khan
"Custom Tariff: Standardisation and Harmonisation"
Mr. Amir Ullah Khan is a New Delhi-based economist. He has worked as Executive Director and Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica India, Fellow at the India Development Foundation and is now at the PHDCCI, working as Deputy Secretary General.

3. Nisha Taneja
"Trade Facilitation in the WTO: Issues and Concerns for South Asia"
Ms. Taneja works at Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), New Delhi.

4. Douglas Jayasekera
Mr. Jayasekera is a researcher based at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka.

5. Mohammad Sulaiman
"Draft Report -- Valuation of Goods"
Mr. Sulaiman is a former Customs Commissioner, Pakistan. He now runs a consultancy (Sulaiman Associates).

6. Dilli Prakash Ghimire
"Harmonisation in Customs Warehousing Facilities in Customs Laws of South Asia"
Mr. Ghimire is a Customs Consultant from Nepal.

7. Dr A. R. Kemal
Dr Kemal is the Director of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE).

8. Dr Nephil Matangi Maskay
"A Perspective for Monetary Cooperation and a Common Currency in South Asia"
Prof. Maskay is a Professor at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
9. Wilima Wadhwa
"Poverty Alleviation in South Asia: The Case of India"
Ms. Wadhwa is part of the Society for Economic Research and Financial Analysis (SERFA).

10. Professor Mohan Rao
"Poverty and Health -- The Indian Case"
Dr Rao is Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. A medical doctor, he has specialised in public health and written extensively on health and population plicy, and on the history and politics of health.

11. Dr Nuzhat Ahmed
"Poverty Alleviation and the SAARC Social Charter"

12. Dr Ponna Wignaraja
"Achieving Development with Equity: A New school of Thought"
Dr Wignaraja is the Chairman of South Asian Perspectives Network Association (SAPNA) and Vice Chairman of Independent South Asian Commission on Poverty Alleviation.

13. Dr. Mizanur Rahman Shelley
"Poverty Alleviation in South Asia -- Policies and Strategies: Focus on Bangladesh"
Dr Shelley is the Chairman of Center for Development Research, Bangladesh and Editor, Asian Affairs.

14. Ananya Raihan
"Regional Cooperation in Investment: Founding Stone of South Asian Integration"
Mr. Raihan is the Executive Director of D.Net, a premier development research institution in Bangladesh. Before joining the D.Net, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a civil society think tank in Bangladesh.

15. Indra Nath Mukherji
"India's Investment Linkage with South Asian Countries"
Prof. Mukherji is Dean of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.

16. Prabir Purkayastha
"Energy Security, Energy Policy and a South Asian Gas Grid"
Mr. Purkayastha is an engineer and a science activist in the power, telecom and software sectors.

17. Prof. Mahendra Prasad Lama
Prof. Lama is a Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India
18. Tripta Thakur
"Common Energy Market in the South Asian Region: Possibilities, Key Issues and Concerns"
Ms. Thakur is an Energy Consultant.

19. Professor Priyantha Wijayatunga
"Regional Cooperation in Energy Sector Development: Sri Lanka Perspective"
Prof. Wijayatunga is the Director General of Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka.

20. Q. K. Ahmad
"Cooperation on the energy sector in South Asia"
Mr. Ahmad is the Chairman of Bangladesh Unnayan Parishad (BUP), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

21. Fahd Ali
"Energy Trade between India and Pakistan: Possibilities and Issues"
Mr. Ali is a Visiting Researcher at Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SDPI), Islamabad. He is also presently a graduate student at the Department of Economics, Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS).

22. Durga Nath Raina
"India's Energy Security from SAARC Perspective"
Mr. Raina is the Senior Energy Advisor at SARI/Energy Program, New Delhi, India.

23. Dr Zaigham Habib
"Pakistan Water -- Indus Profile"
Dr Habib is a Lahore-based consultant on water issues, with a doctorate thesis on the Indus Basin System.

24. Dr Satyajit Kumar Singh
"Local Governance, Institutions and Politics: Reforming the Rural Water Sector in South Asia"
Dr Singh teaches at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India.

25. Ramaswamy Ramagopal Iyer
“Water in South Asia: A Synoptic Overview"
Mr. Iyer is Honorary Research Professor at Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi, India.

26. Dr Bishnu Hari Nepal
"Nepal's National Water Plan and Regional Issues"
Dr Nepal is a former Nepalese diplomat.

27. Giasuddin Ahmed Choudhury
Mr. Choudhry is the Executive Director of the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
28. M. V. Ramana
"Reducing and Eliminating the Nuclear Danger: Some Short and Long Term Steps"
Mr. Ramana is a physicist and research staff member at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security.

29. Moeed Yousaf
"Persevering Towards Nuclear Stability"
Mr. Yousaf is a consultant at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad. He is also a regular columnist for The Friday Times and Daily Times, Pakistan.

30. Ejaz Haider
"Managing Nukes in the Shadow of India's Ambitions"
Mr. Haider is News Editor, The Friday Times and Contributing Editor of Daily Times, Pakistan.

31. Praful Bidwai
"Chasing the Mirage of Nuclear Stabilisation"
Mr. Bidwai is a peace activist, a New Delhi-based political analyst and a columnist with twenty-five Indian newspapers.

32. Dr Navnita Chadha Behera
"Involving the Stakeholders: Key to Developing South Asian Conflict Resolution Mechanisms"
Prof. Behera is from the Department of Political Science, Delhi University, India.

33. Ameena Akhtar Mohsin
"Conflict and Conflict Resolution: Bangladesh Scenario"
Prof. Mohsin is a Professor at the Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

34. Professor Moonis Ahmar
"A Framework of South Asian Conflict Resolution Mechanism: A Case Study of Pakistan"
Prof. Ahmar is a Professor at the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi and the Director of the Program on Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution.

35. Khaled Ahmad
Mr. Ahmad is Consulting Editor of Daily Times, Pakistan.

36. Dr Soosaipillai I. Keethaponcalan
"Deep Rooted Conflicts and Conflict Resolution: A Study of the Ethno-political Conflict in Sri Lanka"
Dr. Keethaponcalan is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
37. Lok Raj Baral
"Nepal: The Domestic Context of Conflict Resolution"
Prof. Baral is a Professor of Political Science at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He is also the Executive Chairman of Nepal Centre for Contemporary Studies (NCCS), and has served as Nepal's ambassador to India.

38. Prof. Sukh Deo Muni (SD Muni)
"A Perspective on Political Integration in South Asia"
Prof. Muni is a Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India.

39. Hasan Askari Rizvi
"S A A R C: Issues and Problems of Regional Cooperation"
Mr. Rizvi is a Political and Defence Consultant based in Lahore, Pakistan.

40. Ravikant Sharma
Mr. Sharma is an historian and media researcher based in New Delhi, India.

41. Professor Janaki Nair
"Burdened by the Past: History Textbooks in Contemporary India"
Prof. Nair is a Professor of History at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, India.

42. Professor Imtiaz Ahmad
"Re-writing South Asian history: Identifying the Problems with Particular Reference to Bangladesh"
Prof. Ahmad is a Professor at the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

43. Ahmad Salim
"Education and Ideological Crossroads -- Pakistan"
Mr. Salim is a poet, journalist, keeper of public records and research worker. He works at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute as Director Urdu Publications and as Research Associate.

44. Professor Visalakshi Menon
"Towards a Common History of South Asia"
Prof. Menon is Reader at the Department of History, Jesus and Mary College, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

45. Satish Deshpande
"Can there be a South Asian Social Science? A View From Indian Sociology"
Mr. Deshpande is a Professor at Delhi University, India.

46. Professor Mushirul Hasan
"The BJP's Intellectual Agenda: Textbooks and Imagined History"
Prof. Hasan is Vice Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia (Central University), New Delhi.
47. Rashid Jallundhry
Mr. Jallundhry is a member of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan.

49. Prof. Zoya Hasan
"Tokenism or empowerment? A Comparative Analysis of Public Policies and institutions of Disadvantaged communities in India"
Prof. Hasan is a Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

50. Dr Ali Riaz
"Confronting the Menace: Religious Extremism and the Minorities in Bangladesh"
Dr Riaz is an Associate Professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University, USA. His two recent books are: "God Willing: The Politics of Islamism in Bangladesh" and "Unfolding State: The Transformation of Bangladesh."

51. Yoginder Singh Sikand
"Muslims, the State and Inter-community Relations: Islamic Perspectives from Contemporary India"
Mr. Sikand is Reader at the Department of Islamic Studies at Hamdard University,

52. Dr Abid Suleri
"WTO and South Asia"
Dr Suleri is Assistant Executive Director Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Islamabad, Pakistan.

53. Shahid Javed Burki
"South Asia: Trade, Development and the Multilateral Trading System"
Mr. Burki is a fomer Vice President of the World Bank and also former Finance Minister in the Pakistan government.

54. Dr Rajesh Mehta
"Impact of WTO on India"
Dr Mehta is Senior Fellow at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS).