Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a writer, political thinker, and poet, who earned his doctorate in political science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Gandhi: The End of Nonviolence, Nehru and the Spirit of India, The Town Slowly Empties: On Life and Culture during Lockdown, Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India, and Ghalib’s Tomb and Other Poems. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, World Literature Today, The Fortnightly Review, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Outlook, The Wire, Frontline, Scroll, and the Economic and Political Weekly. He has taught lyric poetry and literary journalism at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.