Security Analyst Abhijit Iyer-Mitra : everything you need to know

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is an Indian Journalist, thinker, analyst specialized in Security and International relations. He also talks about other various political and social issues. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is currently researching on various issues and is the author of numerous scholarly articles at FirstPost, OPIndia, The Print, Swarajya, etc. He also contributes to the IPCS (Indian Nuclear Doctrine and Strategy) as an author.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is a CNN-News18 reporter and he introduces himself as HRH the Archbitchess of Mylapore,Theologian of the Right, Hammer of the Left, Class Oppressor and Pro-Rich. You can watch Abhijit Iyer-Mitra live at Sham Sharma Show YouTube channel.

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra om Twitter

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra is active on twitter and very popular. He has more than 119k twitter followers and joined twitter in 2013. He has tweeted and retweeted more than 80k times since 2013. He is following 1589 people on twitter as of 2021. He tweets on various issues like- international relations, politics, security, etc.

Family

He is the son of VS Chandralekha, a former civil servant, who resigned in 1992 after an acid attack on her in Chennai, allegedly by AIADMK hoodlums.

Experiences of Abhijit Iyer-Mitra

He worked in the corporate world after receiving his B.Com from the University of Madras before returning to academics. He possesses a master’s degree in international relations from Monash University’s School of Political & Social Inquiry and is currently working on his PhD. He worked as a research assistant on a number of projects at Monash University’s Centre For Muslim Minorities & Islam Policy Studies (2007-2010). He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at Sandia National Laboratories and a Programme Coordinator at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. The author’s opinions are his or her own, and do not reflect any institutional or national perspective.

His core research interests include limited conflicts and nuclear thresholds, but he also has a keen interest in military transformation, defense strategy, procurement and offsets, infrastructure, governance, and Historical Patterns of Conflict in Democracies. He enjoys traveling, cooking, flying microlight aircraft, and scuba diving in his spare time.

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Controversies

Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, it appears, has been the real tea on social media lately. He used horrible words in a now-deleted offensive tweet. He also engaged into a heated argument with Ajai Shukla, a defense specialist, regarding the India-China border dispute. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, a journalist and defence analyst, has filed a Rs 20 lakh defamation complaint against advocate Dushyant Arora and NDTV presenter Gargi Rawat over a tweet in which he was referred to as a rape suspect.