Chapter 1: Progress Towards Common Ground.- Chapter 2: China, US Elite Politics on Sino-US Rapprochement.- Chapter 3: Consolidation, USA & Beginning of Economic Transformation.- Chapter 4: India in Vanishing Bipolar World: Begins Negotiating Choppy Waters.- Chapter 5: “Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds”.- Chapter 6: China, India should March to their Own Drummers.- Chapter 7: India’s Grand Strategy and Exceptionalism.- Chapter 8: Is ChiNdia possible.
Pinaki Bhattacharya had been a journalist for about three decades, working with various publications and a news television channel. He covered various ministries, agencies and the armed forces related to the issue of Strategic Security. He was also East-West Centre fellow of the Asia Pacific Leadership Programme over 2007–2008, successfully completing a certificate level graduate programme from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He contributed to various specialised journals like Strategic Analysis and Aakrosh . He wrote for Observer Researcher Foundation (as an external consultant/analyst), besides Society for Policy Studies, and Vivekananda International Foundation (as Contributor). Mr. Bhattacharya passed away in March 2019.