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			[[File:Seshadri Chari at International Centre, Goa.jpg\|thumb\|160px\|right\|Seshadri Chari at International Centre, Goa]]
	'''Seshadri Ramanujan Chari''' is an Indian politician, journalist, author and strategic and foreign policy analyst. Chari is a veteran ''[[RSS swayamsevak\|swayamsevak]]'' of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/no-rss-role-in-jaswants-expulsion-seshadri-chari_556503.html\|title=No RSS role in Jaswant’s expulsion: Seshadri Chari\|newspaper=Zee News\|date=19 August 2009\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Chari currently serves on the National Executive Committee of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP)<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.mitsog.org/Guest-Lecturer-Sheshadri-Chari.html\|title=Guest Lecturer - Shri. Seshadri Chari\|website=MIT School of Government\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> and formerly served as head of the Foreign Affairs Cell at BJP headquarters.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/tamils-issue-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka-chari_951278.html\|title=Tamils issue an internal matter of Sri Lanka: Chari\|newspaper=Zee News\|date=30 July 2014\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Seshadri Chari has also been a consultant on governance with the [[United Nations Development Programme\|United Nations Development Program]] (UNDP), posted at [[Juba\|Juba, South Sudan]].		'''Seshadri Ramanujan Chari''' is an Indian politician, journalist, author and strategic and foreign policy analyst. Chari is a veteran ''[[RSS swayamsevak\|swayamsevak]]'' of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/no-rss-role-in-jaswants-expulsion-seshadri-chari_556503.html\|title=No RSS role in Jaswant’s expulsion: Seshadri Chari\|newspaper=Zee News\|date=19 August 2009\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Chari currently serves on the National Executive Committee of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP)<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.mitsog.org/Guest-Lecturer-Sheshadri-Chari.html\|title=Guest Lecturer - Shri. Seshadri Chari\|website=MIT School of Government\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> and formerly served as head of the Foreign Affairs Cell at BJP headquarters.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/tamils-issue-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka-chari_951278.html\|title=Tamils issue an internal matter of Sri Lanka: Chari\|newspaper=Zee News\|date=30 July 2014\|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Seshadri Chari has also been a consultant on governance with the [[United Nations Development Programme\|United Nations Development Program]] (UNDP), posted at [[Juba\|Juba, South Sudan]].

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	A debater and student activist at [https://web.archive.org/web/20150216152218/http://www.chinaicollege.com/index-roundabout.html Chinai College of Commerce and Economics], [[University of Mumbai\|Mumbai University]], Chari became be part of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh\|RSS]] sponsored anti-[[The Emergency (India)\|Emergency]] underground movement ''Lok Sangharsh Samiti.'' He offered ''satyagrah and'' was imprisoned at Arthur Road Jail.		A debater and student activist at [https://web.archive.org/web/20150216152218/http://www.chinaicollege.com/index-roundabout.html Chinai College of Commerce and Economics], [[University of Mumbai\|Mumbai University]], Chari became be part of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh\|RSS]] sponsored anti-[[The Emergency (India)\|Emergency]] underground movement ''Lok Sangharsh Samiti.'' He offered ''satyagrah and'' was imprisoned at Arthur Road Jail.

	He earned his ~~BComm~~, LLB and MA (History) degrees from the University of Bombay.<ref name=SISI />{{rp\|63}}		He earned his B.Com, LLB and MA (History) degrees from the University of Bombay.<ref name=SISI />{{rp\|63}} He was awarded PhD by Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) for his thesis on "Regional Dynamics of Indo-Pacific Region and Implications of China's Influence in India's Extended Neighbourhood".<ref>{{Cite web\|title=Title of Thesis : Regional Dynamics of the Indo Pacific Region and Implications of Chinas Influence in Indias Extended Neighbourhood\|url=http://hdl.handle.net/10603/341846\|url-status=live\|access-date=7 December 2021\|website=[[Shodhganga]]}}</ref>

	==Political career==		==Political career==
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	In 2007, Chari was president of the Party Worker Training Cell of the RSS<ref name=Schwecke>{{cite book\|last=Schwecke\|first=Sebastian\|title=New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party\|publisher=Routledge\|date=6 December 2012\|isbn=9781136846571}}</ref>{{rp\|124}} where he was considered a moderate.<ref name=Schwecke />{{rp\|144,154}}		In 2007, Chari was president of the Party Worker Training Cell of the RSS<ref name=Schwecke>{{cite book\|last=Schwecke\|first=Sebastian\|title=New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party\|publisher=Routledge\|date=6 December 2012\|isbn=9781136846571}}</ref>{{rp\|124}} where he was considered a moderate.<ref name=Schwecke />{{rp\|144,154}}

	Seshadri Chari is currently engaged as Director (International Affairs), Institute for National Security Studies<!--I've failed to connect him with the Israeli organisation--> (INSS), Director, Forum for Strategic & Security Studies (FSSS), Secretary-General, 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.{{citation needed\|date=May 2018}}		Seshadri Chari is currently engaged as Director (International Affairs), Institute for National Security Studies<!--I've failed to connect him with the Israeli organisation--> (INSS), Director, Forum for Strategic & Security Studies (FSSS), Secretary-General, Forum for Integrated National Security (FINS),<ref>{{Cite web\|title=FINS Leadership\|url=https://finsindia.org/about-fins/fins-leadership/\|access-date=2021-12-07\|website=Forum For Integrated National Security\|language=en-GB}}</ref> 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.{{citation needed\|date=May 2018}}

	==Bibliography==		==Bibliography==

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Seshadri Ramanujan Chari
| Picture =
| nationality = Indian
| spouse = Rashmi Seshadri Chari
| children = Mayank Seshadri Chari
| residence = [[New Delhi]], [[India]]
| alma_mater = [[South Indian Education Society High School]]<br />[http://www.chinaicollege.com/index-roundabout.html Chinai College of Commerce and Economics]<br /> [[University of Mumbai|Mumbai University]]
| occupation = Journalist-Writer
Political-Social Worker
Foreign Affairs Analyst
}}

'''Seshadri Ramanujan Chari''' is an Indian politician, journalist, author and strategic and foreign policy analyst. Chari is a veteran ''[[RSS swayamsevak|swayamsevak]]'' of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh]] (RSS).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/no-rss-role-in-jaswants-expulsion-seshadri-chari_556503.html|title=No RSS role in Jaswant’s expulsion: Seshadri Chari|newspaper=Zee News|date=19 August 2009|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Chari currently serves on the National Executive Committee of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]] (BJP)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mitsog.org/Guest-Lecturer-Sheshadri-Chari.html|title=Guest Lecturer - Shri. Seshadri Chari|website=MIT School of Government|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> and formerly served as head of the Foreign Affairs Cell at BJP headquarters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/tamils-issue-an-internal-matter-of-sri-lanka-chari_951278.html|title=Tamils issue an internal matter of Sri Lanka: Chari|newspaper=Zee News|date=30 July 2014|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref> Seshadri Chari has also been a consultant on governance with the [[United Nations Development Programme|United Nations Development Program]] (UNDP), posted at [[Juba|Juba, South Sudan]].

==Early life and education==
Born in Matunga, [[Mumbai]] (then [[Bombay]]) on April 2, 1953 to father Ramanujan Chari and mother Kalyani, [[Tamil Brahmin]]s from [[Thanjavur|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 [[Indian National Congress|Congress Party]], it was his mother who had great influence on his growing years. A young Seshadri started going to [[Sangh Shakha|RSS Shakha]] at an early age of four but became active only in his teens. As a ''Mukhya-Shikshak'' of a [[Sangh Shakha|RSS Shakha]] largely attended by daily wage earners from [[Kerala]], he was also active in the labour union led by [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)|CPM]] leader [[Ahilya Rangnekar]]. This association brought him close to Mr. Rangnekar and [[B. T. Ranadive|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|V.K Krishna Menon]] and an admirer of [[Jawaharlal Nehru|Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru]], fine tuned his journalistic aspirations.

A debater and student activist at [https://web.archive.org/web/20150216152218/http://www.chinaicollege.com/index-roundabout.html Chinai College of Commerce and Economics], [[University of Mumbai|Mumbai University]], Chari became be part of the [[Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh|RSS]] sponsored anti-[[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]] underground movement ''Lok Sangharsh Samiti.'' He offered ''satyagrah and'' was imprisoned at Arthur Road Jail.

He earned his BComm, LLB and MA (History) degrees from the University of Bombay.<ref name=SISI />{{rp|63}}

==Political career==
Post [[The Emergency (India)|Emergency]], he became a ''[[RSS pracharak|pracharak]],'' first in [[Mumbai]] Mahanagar and then [[Thane]]. In 1988, he was transferred to the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] where he became the general secretary of the [[Bharatiya Janata Party|BJP]] [[Mumbai]] unit.

Chari rose to prominence as editor of the RSS's weekly journal ''Organiser''. He wrote extensively during his incumbency from 1992 to 2004.<ref name=SISI>{{cite journal|title=Studies in International Strategic Issues|volume=9|date=2006}}</ref>{{rp|63}}<ref>{{cite book|title=Shooting Water: A Mother-daughter Journey and the Making of a Film|last=Saltzman|first=Devyani|date=2015|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=9780144001026}}</ref>{{rp|76}}<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/topic/seshadri-chari|website=The Free Press Journal|title=Is data mining to better poll prospects legal?|date=25 March 2018|access-date=5 May 2018}}</ref>

In 2007, Chari was president of the Party Worker Training Cell of the RSS<ref name=Schwecke>{{cite book|last=Schwecke|first=Sebastian|title=New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party|publisher=Routledge|date=6 December 2012|isbn=9781136846571}}</ref>{{rp|124}} where he was considered a moderate.<ref name=Schwecke />{{rp|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), 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.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|title=A new era in the Indian polity: a study of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the BJP|last1=Raghavan|first1=G N S|last2=Chari|first2=Seshadri|publisher=Gyan Publishing House|date=1996|isbn=9788121205399}}
*{{cite book|last=Chari|first=Seshadri|title=Reservation for Christians: What Next?|publisher=Suruchi Prakashan|date=1996}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.bjp.org/ BJP official website]
* {{Twitter}}

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