Sanjeev Chopra (born 3 March 1961) is a retired

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officer of the 1985 batch; from Kapurthala, Punjab. He is a resident of

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. He is a former Director of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration and has written a book ''We, the People of the States of Bharat: The Making and Remaking of India's Internal Boundaries'', published in 2022. He is now the patron and honorary consultant to a literary festival, the Valley of Words International Literary Festival held annually in Dehradun, India. Chopra has held the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship (Cornell), the Robert S. McNamara Fellowship (World Bank) and positions at Royal Asiatic Society, London, the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute (Harvard). Chopra is a regular contributor to ThePrint.in.

Early life

He studied at

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, where he began his academic and literary careers. While editing the college magazine, ''The Beas'', he also published his first book of poems ''Ecstasy'' in 1978, and wrote for youth magazines and local radio stations. For some time he worked as a journalist for ''

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'', before clearing the Indian Civil Services Exam. This was followed by a bureaucratic career in India and abroad.

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