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About Me
My Background
My Background
My Background
In my youth, during the mid-1960s Calcutta, I witnessed the destruction of a society as a result of political violence. I came to the US, but the images of violence remained deeply etched in my memory. I have spent all my adult life trying to understand the causes of terrorism, political violence and genocide.
Bio
Dipak K. Gupta is a Pro
In my youth, during the mid-1960s Calcutta, I witnessed the destruction of a society as a result of political violence. I came to the US, but the images of violence remained deeply etched in my memory. I have spent all my adult life trying to understand the causes of terrorism, political violence and genocide.
Bio
Dipak K. Gupta is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at San Diego State University. Gupta was the Fred J. Hansen Professor of Peace Studies from the periods 1998-2001 and 2004-2011. He is also a former Director and one of the founders of International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR), an innovative multidisciplinary undergraduate program. ISCOR is one of the fastest-growing majors on campus with over 300 declared majors.
Gupta has been a visiting professor at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, Leiden University in the Netherlands, Fudan University in Shanghai, China and the Terrorism Prevention Branch at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) in Vienna, Austria. He was also awarded a summer fellowship in the International Studies Program at the Hoover Institution for War, Peace, and Revolution, at Stanford University. He received a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for International Politics and Economics in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. In 2010 Gupta received a Fulbright (Expert) Fellowship at Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dipak Gupta is the author of ten academic books (one forthcoming) and has published over 150 articles in scholarly journals, research monographs, edited volumes and newspapers. He has also been invited by the Prime Minister’s office of Norway, the foreign ministries of Sweden, the Netherlands, the Interior Ministry of Turkey. He was among a select group of invitees of the Safe Democracy forum in Madrid, convened by the King of Spain in 2005. His works have been translated in many languages.
Gupta is also an award-winning artist, whose paintings are regularly on display in local galleries.
(Instagram: #dipakguptaart).
He has recently completed his first work of fiction about radicalization of a young man
My Art
My Background
My Background
My art is varied. I am always looking for new themes, new techniques, and new ways of expressing myself.
See my Instagram posts:
#dipakguptaart
My Writings
My Background
My Writings
Coming Soon, My Debut Novel
Lonesome Flight
The lives of two young lovers, Kokil (‘Cuckoo’ in Bengali) and Riza, from Calcutta’s richest, are shattered during the tumultuous years of the late-1960s. Riza finds her life’s purpose by embracing a Maoist revolutionary movement, while Kokil, losing love, faith, and even his own identity, begins
Coming Soon, My Debut Novel
Lonesome Flight
The lives of two young lovers, Kokil (‘Cuckoo’ in Bengali) and Riza, from Calcutta’s richest, are shattered during the tumultuous years of the late-1960s. Riza finds her life’s purpose by embracing a Maoist revolutionary movement, while Kokil, losing love, faith, and even his own identity, begins his journey by starting over in the United States
Prise for the book
- Chitra Divakaruni -
"This is a powerful and tragic story not known to many, a story of the Naxalite terrorist movement in India in the 1960s that seduced and claimed many promising young lives. The novel is also a moving love story, and an adventure rife with secrets and betrayals, violence and redemption. This depiction of how bright young minds are recruited into becoming terrorists is particularly timely because of the distressing growth of terrorist cells worldwide today. Dipak Gupta, an expert in this field of study, has done a fine job."