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Colonel Ajai Shukla (Retd.) speaks about India’s Borders with China in season 2 of Brains Trust.

Colonel Ajai Shukla is an Indian journalist and a retired Colonel of Indian Army. Ajai has a post-graduate degree from the Department of War Studies, King’s College, London.
He writes articles on defence policy, production and acquisition and currently works as consulting editor with Business Standard. He earlier worked with DD News and NDTV.
He was commissioned into an elite army tank regiment, 4 HORSE (Hodson’s Horse), in 1979, after training for three years (1976-78) at the National Defence Academy, Khadakvasla, Pune and another year (1979) at the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun.
He served for 22 years, eventually taking pre-mature retirement from the army after successfully commanding 4 HORSE.
From July 2001, Ajai Shukla worked as a war correspondent for New Delhi Television (NDTV). After the 9/11 World Trade Centre terrorist attack, Ajai Shukla went into Afghanistan and, for the next three months, was the only Indian journalist to have covered the entire campaign to remove the Taliban from power. He also covered the attack on Tora Bora, near Jalalabad, on Osama bin Laden’s cave complex, from where Osama bin Laden escaped into Pakistan’s tribal areas.
In 2003-2004, Ajai Shukla covered the Iraq War and the US occupation of Iraq. During this period, he also reported from Syria, Jordan and Kuwait.
In 2006, Ajai Shukla covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, during the Israel-Hezbollah war.
In 2008-09, Ajai Shukla shifted base to the northeast, living and researching for a year in Arunachal Pradesh, for a proposed book on India’s assimilation of Arunachal Pradesh as a full-fledged state of the Indian union.
From 2006 onwards, Ajai Shukla began writing as a consulting editor for Business Standard, a leading Indian business daily newspaper. His writing covers a wide range of strategic issues, including defence policy, procurement and industry.
Besides writing for Business Standard, Ajai Shukla also hosts a popular blog, Broadsword, which is visited daily by 3,000-6,000 followers of Indian defence news.
Ajai Shukla is a frequent commentator on defence and strategic issues on news television. He is also a speaker at various forums, including schools, colleges and military training establishments.

The idea of Brains Trust was inspired by President Roosevelt's selection of two professors from Columbia University, to advise him on matters of importance, without bias and rhetoric, rooted in facts and insights. A New York Times reporter discovered this and called this group the President's Brains Trust.

For Brains Trust India, we are creating a confederacy of great minds who will build bridges with knowledge.

The British High Commission is a partner in this movement and speakers of eminence from India and the UK will participate.

The members of Brains Trust will present their ideas in an audiovisual capsule. This will be followed by an eight city tour every year to socialise the ideas through travel and outreach programs as well as by leveraging social media.

The subjects avoid current affairs and any controversial issues. It is envisaged that over the next 36 months this program will evolve from being an event, to a movement, rooted in knowledge appealing to a wide cross section of audiences.

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