South Asia Analysis Group

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South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG) is a non-profit non-commercial think tank based in India. The objective of the group is to advance strategic analysis and contribute to the expansion of knowledge of Indian and International security and promote public understanding. In so doing, the SAAG seeks to address the decision makers, strategic planners, academics and the media in South Asia and the world at large.^[1]

The group holds the concept of strategy in its broadest meaning-including mobilization and application of all resources to understand national and international security.

The scope of their work encompasses Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, China, Iraq, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Fiji.^[2]

Their website hosts articles that are provided by reputed scholars in political and strategic analysis. It hosts notes, analysis, papers and updates on a broad range of aspects of Indian security issues and international relations.^[3]

It includes access to news updates from the regions of interest, email discussion forums and a large collection of online discussion papers published since 1998 by authors from the South Asian continent. Key topics include: terrorism, international security, Indian politics and political parties, weapons of mass destruction and the connection between radical Islam and terrorism.^[2]

[edit] Analysts

A few of the analysts are:^[3]

B. Raman (retired Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and presently Director of the Institute for Topical Studies, Chennai)
S. Gopal (former Special Secretary, Govt. of India)
Dr. S. Chandrasekharan,
C.S. Kuppuswamy (former Director of the Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India).