Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a writer and political science scholar from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Nehru and the Spirit of India (Penguin Viking, 2022), The Town Slowly Empties: Life and Culture during Lockdown (2021), and Looking for the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India (2018). His writings, apart from regular contributions to The Wire, have appeared in The New York Times, Aljazeera, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, World Literature Today, The Hindu, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Outlook, Scroll  among others. He has taught Lyric Poetry and Literary Journalism at Ambedkar University, Delhi.