Niraj Kumar

Niraj Kumar(1973- ) is the author of classic work on Asian Integration, "Arise, Asia! Respond to White Peril"(January,2003). The sequel "Asia in Post-Western Age" has been published in 2014. He is an initiate in Ramakrishna Mission Order and disciple of Swami Ranganathanadaji Maharaj.

He is intimately involved with the Himalayas, Buddhism and Tantra.

Currently, he is Joint Secretary in the Government of India and resides in New Delhi.

His ongoing work is five volume set on translation and commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra. The first volume, Kalacakra Tantra: Translation, Annotation and Commentary (DK PrintWorld & Mody Univ of Science & Tech New Delhi:2022) has been internationally well received. It is first verse by verse commentary on the complex text, written after a gap of millennium. The second volume has been released on 22 November 2024. Third volume dealing with the construction of sand mandala and first seven initiations is expected to be released in October 2025.

[Books: Arise, Asia! Respond to White Peril(2003), Autopsy of Revolution(Poetry,2006),I Have No Voice(Poetry,2013), Sri Yantra and Geophilosophy of India(2014), Asia in Post-Western Age(2014), Rainbow of Indian Civilization(2015), Tagore's Refuge Unto Buddha(co-ed. Lama Chosphel Zotpa, S.N. Mishra , 2014), Himalayan Bridge(co-editors George van Driem, P. Stobdan, 2016),Rekindling Pan-Asian Spirit Through Rebuilding Nalanda(2017),The Kalacakra Tantra, Vol. I(2022), The Kalacakra Tantra, Vol. II(2025)]. He is also co-authoring a book on geopolitics of Buddhism, commissioned by Penguin India-Random House.