Dr. Bali Deepak
Professor, Chinese Studies at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Dr. Bali Deepak is a Professor of Chinese Studies at the Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. A distinguished scholar in the field of Sino-Indian relations and Chinese civilization and culture, Dr. Deepak has been the recipient of several prestigious fellowships and awards, including the Nehru and Asia Fellowship and the India-China Cultural Exchange Fellowship, which supported his doctoral and advanced studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Peking University, respectively. His most recent work, Rising India and China: Strategic Rivalry in the Himalayas and the Indo-Pacific (two volumes), was published by Springer Nature’s Palgrave Macmillan in 2025, contributing significant insights into contemporary geopolitical dynamics in Asia. In addition to his academic research, Dr. Deepak is a prolific translator, having brought key Chinese philosophical and literary works into Hindi and English. His notable translations include China and India: Dialogues of Civilizations (Pentagon Press, 2021; Hindi edition: Prakashan Sansthan, 2021), The Four Books (Hindi edition, National Book Trust, 2018), Core Values of Chinese Civilization (Prakashan Sansthan, 2018), and Chinese Poetry: 1100 BC to 1400 AD (Prakashan Sansthan, 2011) for which he was awarded the Special Book Prize of China. Dr. Deepak also contributes regularly to public discourse on China through his column “Eye on China” in The Sunday Guardian, accessible at sundayguardianlive.com/user/b-r-deepak.
