Seshadri Chari

Seshadri Ramanujan Chari
Personal details
Nationality Indian
Spouse(s) Rashmi Seshadri Chari
Children Mayank Seshadri Chari
Residence New Delhi, India
Alma mater South Indian Education Society High School
Chinai College of Commerce and Economics
Mumbai University
Occupation

Journalist-Writer Political-Social Worker

Foreign Affairs Analyst

Seshadri Ramanujan Chari a journalist, politician, strategic and foreign policy analyst is a veteran swayamsevak of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). He is currently a member of the national executive of the Bhartiya Janta Party and former head of the foreign affairs cell at the party headquarters. Seshadri chari has also been a consultant on governance to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), posted at Juba, South Sudan.

Seshadri Chari is also currently engaged as Director, (International Affairs) Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Director, Forum for Strategic & Security Studies (FSSS), Secretary Genral, Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS), 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. He is also the Vice-President for the Society for Consumers' and Investors' Protection.

Early life and Education

Born in Matunga, Mumbai (then Bombay) on April 2, 1953 to Ramanujan(Father) and Kalyani(Mother) Chari, Tamil Brahmins from Tanjavur, Seshadri Chari is one of five children. 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. A young Seshadri, started going to RSS Shakha at an early age of four but became active only in his teens. 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. This association brought him close to Mr. Rangnekar and comrade B.T. Ranadive with whom he would engage in political and ideological discussions. One of his uncles S. T. Chary, who was a close associate of V.K Krishna Menon and an admirer of Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, fine tuned his journalistic aspirations.

An ace debater and student activist at Chinai College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai University, it was natural for Seshadri Chari to be part of the RSS sponsored anti-Emergency underground movement Lok Sangharsh Samiti. He offered satyagrah and was imprisoned Arthur Road Jail. Post Emergency, he became a pracharak, first in Mumbai Mahanagar and then Thane. In 1988, he was transferred to the BJP where he became the general secretary of the BJP Mumbai unit.

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