I am a homespun academic who is trained in International Relations. My fundamental intellectual preoccupations relate to the broader global politics of knowledge, theorizing in and for the global South and residing in a close pursuit of the intersections of international relations and international law. I have been much inclined in recent years to pursue developments in cognition studies and their implications for our fundamental premises in the social sciences and humanities. I am the author of Banning the Bomb: The Politics of Norm Creation, two co-edited anthologies on International Relations in India, a co-edited volume titled, International Relations: Perspectives for the Global South apart from assorted journal articles. I enjoy swimming most of all and acquiring new mortar skills (the violin being the latest addition to this list). I am working consistently on developing a much stronger empathy muscle and realize there is still a long distance to traverse.
Awards, Honours and Distinctions
Senior Visiting Fellow, SCRIPTS, Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, May to July 2023.
Participant in the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education hosted Executive Leadership Academy (ELA) online program. Founding Shiv Nadar University Fellow, Recognition of Completion of the Executive Leadership Academy Program offered by the University of California, Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education, Executive Leadership Academy in collaboration with Shiv Nadar University from 15 November to 19 November 2021.
Appointed as one of the Editors in Chief for the Global Social Challenges Journal to be launched by the Bristol University Press. The journal is envisaged as a multi-disciplinary journal and has other co-editors in chief as well for specific domains of scholarly inquiry. I finish my current second term in March 2026, having begun working with the journal from 7 December 2021.
Invited as Senior Visiting Researcher as part of the Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, 9 May to 31 July 2020 (I did not avail of this on account of the ongoing pandemic).
Invited as Sessions Chair for International Political Science Association (IPSA), World Congress of Political Science, General Session on ‘Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies’, Lisbon (Portugal) from 10-15, July 2021.
Invited as Visiting Research Professor at the Wissenschaft Zentrum Berlin (WZB) from May 25th to July 5th, 2019.
Editorial Board Member from 1 July 2018 to 31, December 2021 for the journal Global Perspectives (specifically for the section on ‘Global Change and Sustainability Transformations: Technology-Society Interfaces’) published by the University of California Press.
Invited on 16 June 2018 to be a Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Global Cooperation Research at Duisburg, Germany.
Participant in the Brown International Advanced Research Institute on ‘Towards a Global Humanities: Critical Traditions from the Global South’ from May 31st to June 13th 2009.