Nagpur · India
Author & Geopolitics Analyst
I write about Bharat: its institutions, its security and its place in a changing world. Author of RSS: 100 Years of Selfless Service. My next book, Nineteen Days, tells the story of Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor.
Books
My first book tells the story of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh for the next generation.
The story of the Sangh's first century, told for readers aged 10 to 18, with sewa, or selfless service, at its centre: nation-building, cultural preservation and social reform across India.
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Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and the Answer of Bharat
The families, the decisions, the weapons made in Bharat, and the doctrine that came out of nineteen days in 2025.
Countries remember what they write down. I want this chapter of our history written from the point of view of Bharat. — Kamlesh Bhagatkar
Articles
Geopolitics, national security and India's choices, in plain language.
Terror now has an address and a price. Four lessons from the nineteen days between Pahalgam and the ceasefire.
Read →Why geopolitics matters to anyone who runs a business, buys petrol or has a child in the army.
Read →How an organisation with no salaries and no glamour kept going for a century.
Read →About
Kamlesh Bhagatkar is an author and geopolitics analyst from Nagpur, Maharashtra. For the past seven years he has studied geopolitics, national security and India's strategic choices, and he writes about them in plain language, from an Indian point of view.
His first book, RSS: 100 Years of Selfless Service – Engineers of Glorious Bharat (2025), tells the story of the Sangh's first century for young readers. His next book, Nineteen Days: Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and the Answer of Bharat, is a narrative account of India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack.
Alongside his writing, he runs an IT business with offices in Nagpur and Bengaluru.
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Kamlesh Bhagatkar is a Nagpur-based author and geopolitics analyst. He wrote RSS: 100 Years of Selfless Service (2025), and his next book, Nineteen Days, covers Pahalgam and Operation Sindoor. He has studied geopolitics and national security for seven years and runs an IT business in Nagpur and Bengaluru.
Kamlesh Bhagatkar is an author and geopolitics analyst from Nagpur, and the author of RSS: 100 Years of Selfless Service.
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