Pavan Varma


Pavan K. Varma is a former Indian Foreign Service officer and was an adviser to the Chief Minister of Bihar, Nitish Kumar, with cabinet rank.
With effect from June, 2014 he was a Member of Parliament until July 2016. He was the National General Secretary and National Spokesman of the Janata Dal.He was expelled from JD in January 2020 for opposing CAA.

Biography

After retiring from the Foreign Service in January, 2013, Varma became a culture adviser to the Chief Minister of Bihar. He is expelled from JDU. Varma lives in Delhi. Pavan writes columns for Asian Age, Times of India. Pavan Varma condemned those who were opposing a webinar on Ramayana done by JNU and termed them as being illiterate secular

Fiction

As a sequel to The Great Indian Middle Class in 1998, he, in association with journalist Renuka Khandekar, published Maximize Your Life: An Action Plan for the Indian Middle Class. His 2004 Being Indian was published by William Heinemann, in the United Kingdom, as Being Indian: Inside the Real India in March 2005.
Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker has translated and published in various indian languages

Translations

Kalinga International Literary Awards in 2019