Nayan Ramlal Mongia
Origin/Culture/Country: IndianNayan Ramlal Mongia: was an Indian cricketer, active from 1994 to 2004, when he retired. He was a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.
Nayan Chanda
Origin/Culture/Country: IndianNayan Chanda: a former correspondent and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and co-author of numerous books on Asian politics, security and foreign policy issues. He is best known for his seminal book, Brother Enemy: The War after the War. He is currently the Director of Publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, and editor of the YaleGlobal Online, a webzine devoted to exploring globalization.Chanda graduated with a degree in History at the prestigious Presidency College, Kolkata. He stood first in his class during his post-graduate degree in history from Jadavpur University. Between 1971 and 1974 he continued his studies in International Relations at the Sorbonne. In 1974 he was working on his thesis in the Sorbonne on the domestic roots of Cambodian foreign policy under Norodom Sihanouk when he was offered the job of Indochina correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review based out of Saigon. Curious to find out more about the Vietnam War, he decided to become a journalist to see history being made. In April 1975, Chanda decided to stay behind after the fall of Saigon.