M P PrabhakaranMost of his working life, M. P. Prabhakaran straddled two professions: journalism and teaching. He started his career in journalism in 1969 as a cub reporter on Current, a weekly newspaper (now defunct) published from Bombay (later renamed Mumbai).Hethen moved on, as a copy editor, to March of the Nation, another Bombay-based English weekly (also defunct now) and then, to Free Press Journal, one of India's leading English dailies.After immigrating to the U.S. in 1975, Prabhakaran worked as the editor, first of The Voice of India, a monthly, and later, of South Asia News Special, a news and feature syndicate.Side by side with his work in journalism, he pursued a Ph.D. in Political Science at the New School for Social Research, New York. After completing the Ph.D., in 1988, he taught for several years as an adjunct professor of political science, at the City University of New York.Since 2001, Prabhakaran has been traveling extensively and posting his travel experience on The East West Inquirer, an online monthly he started that year. The East-West Inquirer, published at www.eastwestinquirer.com, also carries his social and political commentaries. Read More Read Less