Vikram Sood is the former head of India's foreign intelligence agency,  the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), and an advisor to the  Observer Research Foundation, an independent public policy think tank in  New Delhi. Sood was an officer of the Indian Postal Service (IPoS)  before he joined the intelligence organisation R&AW and later served  as its spymaster from 2000 to 2003. He retired as a career intelligence  officer with 31 years of service on 31 March 2003. He trained under the  mentorship of B. Raman and interviewed by Gentleman R.N Kao. He is the  author of the book The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief's Insights  into Espionage published in 2018, which according to Sood is not a  memoir but a beginner's guide to intelligence and espionage.   In this episode, Velina Tchakarova speaks to him on his take about the  current state of global geopolitics.