Seshadri Chari

Political-Social Worker Seshadri Ramanujan Chari is an Indian politician, journalist, author and strategic and foreign policy analyst.

While his father worked for Sri Ram Mills and Hindustan Polymers, he was also active in the local Congress Party, it was his mother who had great influence on his growing years.

As a Mukhya-Shikshak of a RSS Shakha largely attended by daily wage earners from Kerala, he was also active in the labour union led by CPM leader Ahilya Rangnekar.

A debater and student activist at Chinai College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University, Chari became be part of the RSS sponsored anti-Emergency underground movement Lok Sangharsh Samiti.

[8]: 144, 154 Seshadri Chari is currently engaged as Director (International Affairs), Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Director, Forum for Strategic & Security Studies (FSSS), Secretary-General, Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS),[9] Non-officio member, Research and Information Systems for developing countries, and is also the Director of Chronicle Society of India for Education & Academic Research (CSIEAR), a high –profile NGO actively engaged in promoting educational activities and conducting significant research in areas like Pluralism and Democracy, Conflict Resolution, Role of religion in fostering communal harmony.