Biography

I am a bilingual writer, best known for an award-winning two-part study of former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Hindu right. I studied economics in Delhi and Chennai and did brief stints in nonprofits and journalism before researching the Vajpayee volumes. A fellow of the New India Foundation and a grantee of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, my work draws on extensive archival research and has been critically acclaimed for its interdisciplinary depth and rigor, and featured and reviewed in leading South Asian and international publications. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar at Peterhouse, I will pursue a PhD in history, researching colonial elections and the making of Indian executive power, 1920–47.

Previous Education

Anna University Economics 2010
University of Delhi Economics 2007