TCA Raghavan, a career diplomat, has been a High Commissioner of India to Pakistan and Singapore.
He was Director General of the Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi. He is a Visiting Professor at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and an Adjunct Professor at the National Institute of Advanced Study, Bangalore.
He is a recipient of the Jadunath Sarkar Gold Medal for 2024 from the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, and of the Mohammad Habib Memorial Prize from the Indian History Congress in 2017.
His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Friendship, Love and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle (Juggernaut, 2024).
Raghavan is one of India's foremost analysts of international relations, focusing on the neighbourhood and global power shifts.