PUKAR: an “Alice” in Wonderland

Shalini Rahul Tiwari obtained her PhD from Management Development Institute (Gurgaon), India. She works with the Institute of Management Technology (Ghaziabad), India. She has published in journals such as International Journal of Business and Economics, International Journal of Management Cases and The Case Centre.

Rear Admiral Rakesh Chopra has held various operational appointments in the Indian Navy and has commanded three ships. He has been awarded “Mention in Dispatches” for gallantry during combat operations and the “Vishisht Seva Medal” by the President of India for exemplary service. He is an alumnus and faculty of the Defence Services Staff College. He was a founding member and Dean of the College of Naval Warfare, and of the Navigation & Direction School.

On retirement from the Indian Navy in 2006, after 38 years of exemplary service, Rear Admiral Chopra joined the faculty of XLRI, a prestigious B School in Jamshedpur and offered courses on “Strategy Formulation & Implementation” and “International Relations, Geopolitics & Business”. He shifted to the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, in 2009. He has been a Senior Visiting Research Fellow with the “Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War” at Oxford University. He has also participated in Leadership programmes at the National Defense University, Washington DC, and at the Harvard Kennedy Schoo, Cambridge, Mass.

He is an MSc from Madras University and an MBA from a B school in Mumbai. After doing an MPhil from Mumbai University in Strategic Studies & International Relations, he was subsequently awarded the PhD for his doctoral thesis on “The Strategic Significance of Oil and Gas for the Security of India”. An amateur historian, he was invited to join the Indian History Congress when he was Vice Chairman of the Maritime History Society of South India. He is also Consulting Editor for the prestigious journal “India Strategic”.

He regularly contributes articles on national security and strategy to professional journals and reads papers at national and international seminars. He is a yachtsman of national stature, a qualified International Race Officer and a national judge in sailing.