Saurav Jha is an Indian economic analyst, author, and commentator on geostrategic affairs. His first book, ''The Upside Down Book of Nuclear Power'', was published by

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in March 2010 to favourable reviews, and was translated into several Indian languages. Jha has written for publications such as

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, World Politics Review,

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, as well as national dailies such as

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and

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Biography

An alumnus of

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, and

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, Jha's second book ''The Heat and Dust Project: the Broke Couple’s Guide to Bharat'', co-written with wife,

Devapriya Roy Devapriya Roy is an Indian author best known for her books, ''Friends from College, Indira'' and ''The Heat and Dust Project.'' She lives in New Delhi with her husband Saurav Jha. Early life and education Roy was born in Calcutta and studied ...

, was published on 24 May 2015 and debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-A.C. Nielsen list, and became a bestseller. It chronicles the story of travelling through India on local buses "on a very very tight budget". ''The Heat and Dust Project,'' is also a first-of-its-kind dynamic book as the couple used Facebook to document their journey even as it was underway. In August 2022, Jha published his serious non-fiction book called ''Negotiating The New Normal'', charting the course for India's economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2017, he founded the online journal ''Delhi Defence Review.''

References

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