Madhav Das Nalapat

Madhav Das Nalapat (M.D. Nalapat) is an Indian academic and columnist. Currently Editorial Director of The Sunday Guardian and Itv network (India), Vice-Chair of Manipal University's Advanced Research Group, and Director of the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University. He has been the Coordinating Editor of the Times of India and editor of the Mathrubhumi.

Nalapat writes extensively on security, policy and international affairs.

Apart from his Sunday Guardian column, he is also regularly published in a very wide range of publications, including the Pakistan Observer.

He was born to K. Madhava Das and the renowned Malayalam and English writer Kamala Surayya. Eldest of three brothers, Madhav is married to Princess Lakshmi Bayi of the Royal House of Travancore.

Nalapat is a Gold Medalist in economics from the University of Mumbai.

Nalapat became Editor of the Mathrubhumi, a Malayalam-language newspaper in 1984. Nalapat had earlier been Editorial Director of the Mathrubhumi Group of publications, and previous to that (from 1978), Executive Director of the newspaper company. He continued on the board of directors throughout his tenure in the company.

In 1989 he shifted from Malayalam to English-language journalism, becoming the resident editor of Times of India at Bangalore. In 1994 he moved to Delhi as resident editor of the Times of India. He also worked as Chief of News Bureau in 1995–1997, before becoming contributing editor in end-1998 to concentrate on writing.

The next year, he merged journalism with academics, becoming India's first professor of geopolitics at Manipal University and a distinguished fellow of the University of Georgia. In the past, he has served on the academic councils of Thiruvananthapuram,Calicut and Bangalore universities.

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