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U.S.-India
researchers
awarded Watumull
fellowships

The two are currently
at the East-West Center

Star-Bulletin staff

Two new East-West Center visiting Fellows, here to study contemporary U.S.-India relations, are the first recipients of Jhamandas Watumull Fund fellowships.

They are Sanjaya Baru, professor, Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi, and Pradeep Agrawal, associate professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.

Gulab Watumull, president of the fund, serves on the East-West Center Foundation Board.

Baru's research topic is trade and investment relations between India and the United States. Agrawal will concentrate on U.S.-India economic relations.

Baru is a member of the National Security Advisory Board of India and a columnist for several news publications. He has also been editorial page editor of the Times of India and a TV anchor for business reporting.

Agrawal, at the Gandhi Institute for 10 years, has been a visiting research scholar at seven Asian institutions. He has taught economics at the University of Nebraska, Illinois State University at Normal, and Texas Tech University.

Additionally, Agrawal has served as a consultant to the Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif.