Rudra Chaudhuri is the Director of Carnegie India and Senior Lecturer at King's College London. He is also Visiting Professor at Ashoka University. Rudra works on contemporary security issues and increasingly on the future of technology diplomacy. Rudra is the author of Forged in Crisis: India and the United States since 1947 (2014). He is currently writing a book on the Global History of the Indian Emergency, 1975-1977.