Professor at Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her latest book is Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South (DUP 2024). Author of several books on feminism and politics, she is a regular commentator on contemporary issues on the collective blog kafila.online (of which she is one of the founders) and is active in democratic politics in India. She has translated fiction and non-fiction from Hindi and Malayalam into English, and from Malayalam into Hindi, and received the AK Ramanujan Award for translation instituted by Katha.