Lars Eklund (born 24 March 1953) is a Swedish journalist specialized in

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and Arabic language with a central interest in

South Asian South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ...

studies.SASNET, Lund University. "Lars Eklund is retiring after 16 years". publisher: SASNET, Lund University
/ref> He served as the deputy director of ''Swedish South Asian Studies Network'' (SASNET) affiliated to

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

.The Telegraph (India). "Swede sound of Tagore". publisher: The Telegraph (India)
/ref> He played the instrumental role to construct the gateway of SASNET through which the expansion of studies on South Asia in Sweden along with other

Scandinavian countries Scandinavia is a subregion of northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It can sometimes also refer to the Scan ...

have attained a special interest. He was also the editor-in-chief of the political and cultural magazine focused on South Asia named ''Sydasien'' from 1982 to 2007. He also served as the sub-editor and night editor of the daily Swedish newspaper ''

Arbetet ''Arbetet'' () was a Swedish-language social democrat newspaper published in Malmö, Sweden, from 1887 to 2000. History and profile ''Arbetet'' was first published in Malmö on 6 August 1887. Axel Danielsson was the founder and served as the e ...

'' from 1984 to 2000. Eklund was one of the board members for the ''European Conferences for South Asian Studies'' for which he also held the position of treasurer. To his credit, he conducted the 18th conference of the ''European Conferences for South Asian Studies'' in 2004, at the premises of

along with

Staffan Lindberg Staffan I. Lindberg (born 1969) is a Swedish political scientist and director of the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg. Lindberg's main research interests are comparative politics, democracy and democratization, Africa, political org ...

. In 1982, Eklund married

Bubu Eklund Bubu Eklund (''née'' Munshi, born: 11 March 1951) is an Indian-born Swedish singer and exponent of Rabindra Sangeet. She is based in Lund and leads the ''Lund International Tagore Choir'' with her husband Lars Eklund, which is involved in popu ...

, daughter of the noted Indian artist Annada Munshi and played a central role to expand Annada Munshi's works in Sweden. Eklund started the ''International Tagore Choir in Lund'', the first of its kind in Scandinavian nations, along with his wife

in 2011, through which he is also involved in the significant publicity of

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the ...

and his ideologies in Sweden.Sydsvenskan. "Konst och musik ramar in livet (in Swedish)". publisher: Sydsvenskan
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