Navin Chawla

Website: Navin B Chawla

Navin B Chawla was Chief Election Commissioner of India from April 2009 to July 2010. During this period he conducted, to national and international acclaim, the Indian General Election of April-May 2009. Prior to that he was Election Commissioner (2005-2009). He retired at the constitutionally mandated age of 65 in July 2010.

Publications: He is the author of two books on Mother Teresa, with whom he had a close association for 23 years until she passed away in 1997. The first publication was the authorized biography titled ‘Mother Teresa’ ( Sinclair- Stevenson, UK, 1992). The book has been translated into 14 languages and has sold over half a million copies. The bulk of the royalties go to charity. He also co-authored a second book on Mother Teresa with famed photographer Raghu Rai titled ‘Faith and Compassion’ (Element Books, UK/USA 1997) . In 1987, he wrote a monograph titled ‘The Vocational Rehabilitation and Social Re-integration of the leprosy affected in India’. It was released in 1987 in New Delhi by Mother Teresa herself.