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{{Short description|Indian military officer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Family name hatnote|Chitrapu|lang=Telugu}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox military person
| name = C. Uday Bhaskar
| birth_name = Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar
| image = C. Uday Bhaskar (6419252005).jpg
| caption = Bhaskar in 2011
| spouse = [[Ira Bhaskar]]
| children = 2; including [[Swara Bhaskar]]
| rank = [[Commodore (India)|Commodore]]
| allegiance = {{IND}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|03|02|df=yes}}
| alma_mater = [[Sainik School, Korukonda]], [[Andhra Pradesh]]
| serviceyears = 1970–2007
| branch = {{navy|India}}
| otherwork = Security and strategic affairs analyst
}}

'''Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar''' is a retired military officer who served in the [[Indian Navy]]. He is a critic of security and strategic affairs.<ref name="mari">{{cite web |url= http://maritimeindia.org/member/cuday-bhaskar |title= C.Uday Bhaskar - Designation: Senior Fellow |quote= Commodore (retd) C Uday Bhaskar, former Film Director IDSA, New Delhi retired from the Indian Navy in early 2006 after 37 years service. |publisher= maritimeindia.org |access-date= 19 April 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120305211437/http://maritimeindia.org/member/cuday-bhaskar |archive-date= 5 March 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name="ipcs">{{cite web |url=http://www.ipcs.org/staff_details.php?member_id=42 |title= Cmdr. Uday Bhaskar - Former Deputy Director, IDSA |quote= He is one of India's leading experts on strategic affairs. He regularly writes columns for some of the country's leading English publications such as The Indian Express. |publisher= ipcs.org |access-date= 19 April 2012 }}</ref><ref name="fair">{{cite web |url= http://www.fairobserver.com/users/c-uday-bhaskar |title= C. Uday Bhaskar - New Delhi, India |quote= Commodore C Uday Bhaskar, is currently Senior Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi, where he served as Director from 2009 - 2011. |publisher= fairobserver.com |access-date= 19 April 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120330205420/http://www.fairobserver.com/users/c-uday-bhaskar |archive-date= 30 March 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref name="brus">{{cite web |url= http://brussels.gmfus.org/archives/2011-2/speaker-biographies-2011/ |title= Brussels Forum - Speaker's Biographies 2011 - C. Uday Bhaskar, Director, National Maritime Foundation, India |quote= Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar is currently the director of the National Maritime Foundation, New Delhi. He retired from the Indian Navy in 2007 after 37 years of service. He is concurrently a contributing editor to South Asia Monitor and a Reuters columnist. |publisher= brussels.gmfus.org |access-date= 19 April 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120509041614/http://brussels.gmfus.org/archives/2011-2/speaker-biographies-2011/ |archive-date= 9 May 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

He is currently serving as the Director of the Society for Policy Studies (SPS), an independent think-tank based in New Delhi, India. He is a [[columnist]], editor, and contributor of numerous [[Academic publishing|research-articles]] on nuclear and international security issues to reputed journals in India and abroad. He is also a life member of the [[United Service Institution]] (USI) of India.<ref name="mari" /><ref name="fair" /> His daughter, [[Swara Bhasker]] is a [[Hindi]] film actress.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|last2=|first2=|last3=|first3=|date=23 August 2020|title=Swara Bhasker on being an outsider in Bollywood: There is a certain credibility that comes with it|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/swara-bhasker-on-being-an-outsider-in-bollywood-there-is-a-certain-credibility-that-comes-with-it-1714202-2020-08-23|access-date=2020-09-14|website=India Today|language=en}}</ref>

==Early life==
Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar was born on 2 March 1951.<ref>{{Cite web|date=5 March 2021|title=Inside pictures from Swara Bhasker's father's birthday party|url=https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/events/delhi/inside-pictures-from-swara-bhaskers-fathers-birthday-party/articleshow/81339812.cms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-05-14|website=[[Times of India]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210313030123/https://photogallery.indiatimes.com/events/delhi/inside-pictures-from-swara-bhaskers-fathers-birthday-party/articleshow/81339812.cms |archive-date=13 March 2021 }}</ref> He hails from [[Godavari River|Godavari belt]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Dundoo|first=Sangeetha Devi|date=2013-06-18|title='Films are forever'|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/films-are-forever/article4826634.ece|access-date=2020-09-14|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> He is alumnus of [[Sainik School, Korukonda]].

Uday Bhaskar married [[Ira Bhaskar]], a former professor of Cinema studies at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[Delhi]] and author of ''Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema''. The couple has two children, a daughter and son. Their daughter [[Swara Bhaskar]], is Bollywood actress, and son Ishan Bhaskar is a film director.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-11-09 |title=Commodore C Uday Bhaskar, Director of the Society for Policy Studies (SPS) - TBCY |url=https://tbcy.in/brand/commodore-c-uday-bhaskar-director-of-the-society-for-policy-studies-sps/ |access-date=2025-08-02 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Swara's cool daddy fields questions from millennials |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/swaras-cool-daddy-fields-questions-from-millennials-741226.html |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=Deccan Herald |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Swara Bhaskar Birthday: पिता पूर्व सैनिक तो मां जेएनयू में हैं प्रोफेसर, कुछ ऐसा है स्वरा भास्कर का परिवार |url=https://www.amarujala.com/photo-gallery/entertainment/bollywood/swara-bhaskar-birthday-who-is-swara-bhaskar-father-c-uday-bhaskar-and-mother-ira-bhaskar-know-swara-bhaskar-family-details-here |access-date=2025-08-02 |website=Amar Ujala |language=hi}}</ref>

==Career==
He served in [[Indian Navy]] till 2007 for 37 years. He was associated with [[Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses]] (IDSA) from 1990, served as Deputy director from 1996 to 2004, and as an Officiating director of IDSA from 2004 to 2005. Later, was appointed as secretary to the [[Government of India]]'s task force on ''Global Strategic Developments''. He retired in 2007.<ref name="mari"/><ref name="ipcs"/><ref name="fair"/><ref name="brus"/><ref name="idsa">{{cite web |url= http://www.idsa.in/taxonomy/term/226|title= C Uday Bhaskar|quote= Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar is former officiating Director of Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.|publisher= idsa.in |access-date= 18 April 2012 }}</ref>

He worked as an editor of ''Maritime affairs'' and ''Strategic analysis'' - currently, serving on the editorial board of ''Contemporary Security Policy''. He edited books on nuclear, maritime, and international security related issues; and contributed over sixty research-articles to reputed journals, both in India and abroad—US Naval Institute Proceedings, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - and in books published by the [[Naval War College|US Naval War College]] and Royal Navy Defence studies.<ref name="mari"/><ref name="eindia">{{cite book |last= Sisodia |first= N.S |author2=Chitrapu Uday Bhaskar |title= Emerging India: Security and Foreign Policy Perspectives|publisher= Bibliophile South Asia |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ykZKWATQgcoC&q=C.+Uday+Bhaskar&pg=PA379|year= 2005|page=379 |isbn=978-81-86019-51-1}}</ref>

Currently, he is a life member of United Services Institute (USI), a member of advisory panel of the [[India Habitat Centre]] in [[New Delhi]], chairman of the Middle East Institute in New Delhi, director of National Maritime Foundation, and a frequent (guest) lecturer at the Indian National Defence College, including other military colleges.<ref name="mari"/><ref name="fair"/><ref name="brus"/>

This strategic analyst regularly writes columns for some of the country's leading English publications such as [[The Indian Express]], [[Reuters]], [[Dainik Jagran]], [[The Economic Times]], and several alike.<ref name="mari"/><ref name="ipcs"/><ref name="fair"/><ref name="brus"/><ref>
{{cite web |url= http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/cudaybhaskar/ |title= C. Uday Bhaskar- The Indian Express Group|quote= IE - Columnist - Cudaybhaskar |publisher= indianexpress.com |access-date= 19 April 2012 }}</ref>

==Works==
===Books===
* ''United Nations: Multilateralism and International security''.
* ''Emerging India: Security and Foreign policy perspectives''.<ref name="eindia"/><ref>{{cite book |last= C. |first= Uday Bhaskar |title= United Nations: Multilateralism and International Security Asian strategic review |publisher= Shipra Publications|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tzxPAAAACAAJ&q=C.+Uday+Bhaskar|year= 2005 |isbn=978-81-7541-224-8}}</ref>

===Articles===
* ''Manmohan Singh's Seoul Visit- Strategic Implications''.
* ''ZARDARI VISIT TO AJMER: SIGNIFICANCE OF DELHI DETOUR''.
* ''London Attacks: Abiding Pattern of Global Terrorism''.
* ''Pak Support to Terrorism: Yasin Malik Revelation''.
* ''Bangladesh Blasts: Wake up call''.
* ''Resolution of North Korean Imbroglio''.
* ''Vote at IAEA Not Anti-Iranian But Pro-India''.
* ''Dhaka SAARC Summit: Political Compulsions Blunt Economic Progress''.
* ''34th Anniversary of Bangladesh Liberation - Cause for Concern''.
* ''Intel Inside: Securing IT Cities''.
* ''China's GDP & Asian strategic matrix''.
* ''Maldives Crisis Tests India's Regional Profile''.
* ''India in 2012: Strategic and Security Challenges Beckon''
* ''Pre-Halloween Terror Attacks in Kabul: Ominous for Obama''.
* ''China's Recall Of 1911: Implications for India''.
* ''Southern Asia's nuclear myths revisited post bin Laden''.
* ''First India-China Nuclear Dialogue : Huge Misperceptions''.
* ''Direct action day the core of PAK malignancy''.
* ''How the U.S. could have saved 225,000 lives and $4 trillion''.
* ''Non-use of nuclear weapons''.
* ''PM’s Africa visit: Need for sincere review''.
* ''The CDS that should be''.
<ref name="mari"/><ref name="fair"/><ref name="idsa"/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://maritimeindia.org/ |title= Expert's View |quote= ZARDARI VISIT TO AJMER: SIGNIFICANCE OF DELHI DETOUR - Manmohan Singh's Seoul Visit- Strategic Implications |publisher= maritimeindia.org |access-date= 19 April 2012 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160125010338/http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-06-10/news/29642933_1_mf-husain-progressive-artists-group-ns-bendre MF Husain: Charismatic and controversial colossus]
* [http://www.rediff.com/chat/udaychat.htm 'India's relevance has increased significantly in the US perception']
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990222092956/http://www.idsa-india.org/an-mar-3.html Maritime Security and the Aircraft Carrier - Cmde. C. Uday Bhaskar, Deputy Director, IDSA]}}
* [http://www.rediff.com/news/column/yearend-2011-india-in-2012-strategic-and-security-challenges-beckon/20120103.htm India in 2012: Strategic and security challenges beckon]
* [http://kumar-theloneranger.blogspot.in/2011/06/indian-special-forces-capabilities-and.html Indian Special Forces - Capabilities and Shortcomings - Does India have the ability to launch operations similar to Operation Neptune’s Spear? What are the requirements for undertaking such missions?]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cae3qTvDZ-Q Analysing security failure of India-C Uday Bhaskar-3]—on [[YouTube]]
* [https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/india-tests-nuke-capable-missile-hit-china-16169270 Home> International India Tests Nuke-Capable Missile Able to Hit China]
* [https://archive.today/20130103095810/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-09-03/edit-page/27963357_1_indian-navy-joint-exercises-foreign-policy LEADER ARTICLE: Don't Muddy The Waters]
* [http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article520486.ece The over 370-page tome "Anjolie Ela Menon: Through the Patina," by noted art critic Isana Murty, the pen name for defence analyst C. Uday Bhaskar]

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