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G.S. Bhargava has had journalistic experience in the different departments of the profession for over forty years capped by stints at prestigious international and national institutions like the Centre for International Studies, Harvard (1973-74), International Institute of Strategic Studies, London (1976), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1980 and 1990 and Centre for Policy Studies, New Delhi, 1993. he is widely traveled in Asia, the Middle East including Egypt, Israel and Sweden, plus Geneva for attendance at the International Human Rights Conference, was a delegate to UNESCO session (Paris-1979) and spent a term in Moscow as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies. He worked as correspondent in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma and Nepal. He is the author of several books including one on Soviet involvement in Afghanistan (published in the U.S. in 1983) and a concise version in English of Mikhail Gorbachev’s writings and speeches on Perestroika and Glasnost published in Moscow (1990), besides biographies of V.V. Giri, Morarji Desai and Bhim Sen Sachar. He was Principal Information Officer (PIO) to the Government of India from 1978 to 1980.

A former faculty member of Rajdhani College, Delhi University, Dr. R.M. Pal is Hon. editor of PUCL Bulletin, published by the People's Union for civil Liberties. He was Hon. managing editor of the Radical Humanist, a journal founder by M.N. Roy. Dr. Pal has written and lectured extensively on issues of civil liberties and human rights including human rights education and has brought the issues of human rights of Dalits, and free compulsory education of children upto the age of fourteen, on the human rights agenda.