The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief's Insights into Espionage About the Author Vikram Sood was a career intelligence officer for thirty-one years. He retired in March 2003 after heading the R&AW. He is currently adviser at the Observer Research Foundation, an independent public policy think tank based in New Delhi. He writes regularly on security, foreign relations and strategic issues in journals and newspapers and has contributed chapters related to security, China, intelligence and India's neighbourhood to various books published in the last few years.