David Devadas is Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi, India. He was formerly political editor at Business Standard. An expert on politics and geopolitics, his analyses and predictions about Kashmir since 1988 have been consistently accurate. He has researched Kashmir as Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India, as Visiting Professor at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and as an Erasmus Mundus scholar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.