Dr Bhabani Shankar Nayak has completed his B.A (Hons}, M.A in Political Science from Utkal University, Orissa, M.Phil from the University of Hyderabad, India, and D.Phil in Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He has taught in the Universities in Sussex, Glasgow, Manchester, and York. He is working as Senior Lecturer in Business Strategy at the Coventry Business School, Coventry University, UK. He is the author of Nationalizing Crisis: The Political Economy of Public Policy in Contemporary India, Atlantic, New Delhi.